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Dovecot Input Plugin

This plugin uses the Dovecot v2.1 stats protocol to gather metrics about configured domains of Dovecot servers. You can use this plugin on Dovecot up to and including version v2.3.x.

Dovecot v2.4+ has the old protocol removed and this plugin will not work. Please use Dovecot’s Openmetrics exporter in combination with the http input plugin and openmetrics data format for newer versions of Dovecot.

Introduced in: Telegraf v0.10.3 Tags: server OS support: all

Global configuration options

Plugins support additional global and plugin configuration settings for tasks such as modifying metrics, tags, and fields, creating aliases, and configuring plugin ordering. See CONFIGURATION.md for more details.

Configuration

# Read metrics about dovecot servers
[[inputs.dovecot]]
  ## specify dovecot servers via an address:port list
  ##  e.g.
  ##    localhost:24242
  ## or as an UDS socket
  ##  e.g.
  ##    /var/run/dovecot/old-stats
  ##
  ## If no servers are specified, then localhost is used as the host.
  servers = ["localhost:24242"]

  ## Type is one of "user", "domain", "ip", or "global"
  type = "global"

  ## Wildcard matches like "*.com". An empty string "" is same as "*"
  ## If type = "ip" filters should be <IP/network>
  filters = [""]

Metrics

  • dovecot
    • tags:
      • server (hostname)
      • type (query type)
      • ip (ip addr)
      • user (username)
      • domain (domain name)
    • fields:
      • reset_timestamp (string)
      • last_update (string)
      • num_logins (integer)
      • num_cmds (integer)
      • num_connected_sessions (integer)
      • user_cpu (float)
      • sys_cpu (float)
      • clock_time (float)
      • min_faults (integer)
      • maj_faults (integer)
      • vol_cs (integer)
      • invol_cs (integer)
      • disk_input (integer)
      • disk_output (integer)
      • read_count (integer)
      • read_bytes (integer)
      • write_count (integer)
      • write_bytes (integer)
      • mail_lookup_path (integer)
      • mail_lookup_attr (integer)
      • mail_read_count (integer)
      • mail_read_bytes (integer)
      • mail_cache_hits (integer)

Example Output

dovecot,server=dovecot-1.domain.test,type=global clock_time=101196971074203.94,disk_input=6493168218112i,disk_output=17978638815232i,invol_cs=1198855447i,last_update="2016-04-08 11:04:13.000379245 +0200 CEST",mail_cache_hits=68192209i,mail_lookup_attr=0i,mail_lookup_path=653861i,mail_read_bytes=86705151847i,mail_read_count=566125i,maj_faults=17208i,min_faults=1286179702i,num_cmds=917469i,num_connected_sessions=8896i,num_logins=174827i,read_bytes=30327690466186i,read_count=1772396430i,reset_timestamp="2016-04-08 10:28:45 +0200 CEST",sys_cpu=157965.692,user_cpu=219337.48,vol_cs=2827615787i,write_bytes=17150837661940i,write_count=992653220i 1460106266642153907

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