---
title: Telegraf Documentation
description: Telegraf plugin for collecting metrics from WHOIS
url: https://docs.influxdata.com/telegraf/v1/input-plugins/whois/
estimated_tokens: 1101
product: Telegraf
version: v1
---

-   Telegraf v1.35.0+

# WHOIS Input Plugin

This plugin queries [WHOIS information](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3912) for configured domains and provides metrics such as expiration timestamps, registrar details and domain status from e.g. [IANA](https://www.iana.org/whois) or [ICANN](https://lookup.icann.org/) servers.

**Introduced in:** Telegraf v1.35.0 **Tags:** network, web **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](/telegraf/v1/configuration/#plugins) for more details.

## Configuration

```toml
# 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

```text
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
```

#### Related

-   [Configure plugins](/telegraf/v1/configure_plugins/)
-   [WHOIS Plugin Source](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/v1.38.4/plugins/inputs/whois/README.md)