[Dnsmasq-discuss] Stats improvement

Simon Kelley simon at thekelleys.org.uk
Mon Mar 24 21:55:27 UTC 2014


On 24/03/14 11:25, Olivier Mauras wrote:
>  
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I was wondering what would be the effort, and if there'd
> actually be any interest for some dnsmasq statistics improvements. (Yes
> i'm splitting dicussions ^^)
> For monitoring/graph purposes, actual
> dnsmasq stats are a bit difficult to use and completely unusable if
> using "log_queries" as it takes too long to retrieve them inside
> logs.
> 
> I'd love to see a stats "interface" that would output
> total_queries, cache_hits, cache_misses, memory used by cache,
> etc....
> 
> Thanks,
> Olivier
> 

There's an idea to make this available as a DNS query, in the same way that


dig chaos txt version.bind

returns the version number.

Comments?

Cheers,

Simon.





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