zabbix_dnsmasq

DNSmasq monitoring for Zabbix

Instalation

• Copy externalscript content in /usr/local/bin/
• Copy zdnsmasq.conf in zabbix agent configuracion in /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agent2.d
• Restar Zabbix agent: systemctl restart zabbix-agent2.service
• Import in Zabbix server template file template-zdnsmasq.json.
• Install dns library: sudo apt install python3-dnspython

Items collected

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Server queries fails	Total DNS queries failed on upstream servers.	Zabbix agent	zdnsmasqfail["{$DNS.SERVER}","{$DNS.PORT}","servers.bind."]
Server queries	Total DNS queries on upstream servers.	Zabbix agent	zdnsmasq["{$DNS.SERVER}","{$DNS.PORT}","servers.bind."]
Misses	DNS cache misses: queries which had to be forwarded.	Zabbix agent	zdnsmasq["{$DNS.SERVER}","{$DNS.PORT}","misses.bind."]
Insertions	DNS cache insertions.	Zabbix agent	zdnsmasq["{$DNS.SERVER}","{$DNS.PORT}","insertions.bind."]
Hits	number of requests served by the dnsmasq from its cache	Zabbix agent	zdnsmasq["{$DNS.SERVER}","{$DNS.PORT}","hits.bind."]
Evictions	DNS cache exictions: numbers of entries which replaced an unexpired cache entry	Zabbix agent	zdnsmasq["{$DNS.SERVER}","{$DNS.PORT}","evictions.bind."]
Cachesize	Configured size of the DNS cache.	Zabbix agent	zdnsmasq["{$DNS.SERVER}","{$DNS.PORT}","cachesize.bind."]
Authoritative zones	DNS queries for authoritative zones	Zabbix agent	zdnsmasq["{$DNS.SERVER}","{$DNS.PORT}","auth.bind."]