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  • Telegraf v1.35.0+

WHOIS Input Plugin

This plugin queries WHOIS information for configured domains and provides metrics such as expiration timestamps, registrar details and domain status from e.g. IANA or ICANN servers.

Introduced in: Telegraf v1.35.0 Tags: network, web OS support: all

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

# Reads whois data and expose as metrics
[[inputs.whois]]
  ## List of domains to query
  domains = ["example.com", "influxdata.com"]

  ## Use Custom WHOIS server
  # server = "whois.iana.org"

  ## Timeout for WHOIS queries
  # timeout = "30s"

  ## Enable WHOIS referral chain query
  # referral_chain_query = false

Metrics

  • whois
    • tags:
      • domain
      • status (string)
    • fields:
      • creation_timestamp (int, seconds)
      • dnssec_enabled (bool)
      • error (string)
      • expiration_timestamp (int, seconds)
      • expiry (int, seconds) - Remaining time until the domain expires, in seconds. This value can be negative if the domain is already expired. SELECT (expiry / 60 / 60 / 24) as "expiry_in_days"
      • registrar (string)
      • registrant (string)
      • updated_timestamp (int, seconds)

Example Output

whois,domain=example.com,status=unknown creation_timestamp=694224000i,dnssec_enabled=false,expiration_timestamp=0i,expiry=0i,name_servers="",registrant="",registrar="",updated_timestamp=0i 1741128738000000000
whois,domain=influxdata.com,status=clientTransferProhibited creation_timestamp=1403603283i,dnssec_enabled=false,expiration_timestamp=1750758483i,expiry=9629744i,name_servers="ns-1200.awsdns-22.org,ns-127.awsdns-15.com,ns-2037.awsdns-62.co.uk,ns-820.awsdns-38.net",registrant="",registrar="NameCheap, Inc.",updated_timestamp=1716620263i 1741128738000000000
whois,domain=influxdata-test.com,status=not\ found error="whoisparser: domain is not found" 1741128739000000000

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