PowerDNS Exporter

PowerDNS exporter for Prometheus

Periodically scrapes metrics via the PowerDNS HTTP-API and exports them via HTTP/JSON for consumption by Prometheus.

The following PowerDNS products are supported

• Authoritative Server
• Recursor
• Dnsdist (coming soon)

Flags

The api-url flag value should be passed in this format:

• PowerDNS server/recursor 3.x: http://<HOST>:<API-PORT>/
• PowerDNS server/recursor 4.x: http://<HOST>:<API-PORT>/api/v1

Installation

Typical way of installing in Go should work.

go install

A Makefile is provided in case you find a need for it.

Usage

See here for instructions on how to enable the HTTP API in PowerDNS.

Then run the exporter like this:

go run powerdns_exporter -api-url http://<HOST>:<API-PORT>/ -api-key=<YOUR_API_KEY>

Show help:

go run powerdns_exporter --help

Docker

To run the PowerDNS exporter as a Docker container, run:

$ docker run -p 9120:9120 anbraten/powerdns-exporter -api-url http://<HOST>:<API-PORT>/ -api-key <YOUR_API_KEY>