Postfix Input Plugin

This plugin collects metrics on a local Postfix instance reporting the length, size and age of the active, hold, incoming, maildrop, and deferred queues.

Introduced in: Telegraf v1.5.0 Tags: server OS support: freebsd, linux, macos, solaris

Global configuration options

In addition to the plugin-specific configuration settings, plugins support additional global and plugin configuration settings. These settings are used to modify metrics, tags, and field or create aliases and configure ordering, etc. See the CONFIGURATION.md for more details.

Configuration

# Measure postfix queue statistics
# This plugin ONLY supports non-Windows
[[inputs.postfix]]
  ## Postfix queue directory. If not provided, telegraf will try to use
  ## 'postconf -h queue_directory' to determine it.
  # queue_directory = "/var/spool/postfix"

Permissions

Telegraf will need read access to the files in the queue directory. You may need to alter the permissions of these directories to provide access to the telegraf user.

This can be setup either using standard unix permissions or with Posix ACLs, you will only need to use one method:

Unix permissions:

sudo chgrp -R telegraf /var/spool/postfix/{active,hold,incoming,deferred}
sudo chmod -R g+rXs /var/spool/postfix/{active,hold,incoming,deferred}
sudo usermod -a -G postdrop telegraf
sudo chmod g+r /var/spool/postfix/maildrop

Posix ACL:

sudo setfacl -Rm g:telegraf:rX /var/spool/postfix/
sudo setfacl -dm g:telegraf:rX /var/spool/postfix/

Metrics

• postfix_queue
  • tags:
    • queue
  • fields:
    • length (integer)
    • size (integer, bytes)
    • age (integer, seconds)

Example Output

postfix_queue,queue=active length=3,size=12345,age=9
postfix_queue,queue=hold length=0,size=0,age=0
postfix_queue,queue=maildrop length=1,size=2000,age=2
postfix_queue,queue=incoming length=1,size=1020,age=0
postfix_queue,queue=deferred length=400,size=76543210,age=3600