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)

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Flags

Name	Description	Default
listen-address	Host:Port pair to run exporter on	:9120
metric-path	Path under which to expose metrics for Prometheus	/metrics
api-url	Base-URL of PowerDNS authoritative server/recursor API	http://localhost:8001/
api-key	PowerDNS API Key	-

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 janeczku/powerdns-exporter -api-url="http://<HOST>:<API-PORT>/" -api-key="<YOUR_API_KEY>"