dns-exporter

v1.0.0

Multi-target Prometheus exporter with an exclusive focus on DNS monitoring For more information about how to use this package see README

Latest version published 8 months ago

License: BSD-3-Clause

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Package Health Score

56 / 100

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popularity
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maintenance
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community
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Popularity

Limited

GitHub Stars: 35
Forks: 5
Contributors: 4

Direct Usage Popularity

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Security

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Security and license risk for latest version

Release Date: Mar 7, 2024
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License

BSD-3-Clause

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Maintenance

Inactive

Commit Frequency

Open Issues: 13
Open PR: 7
Last Release: 8 months ago
Last Commit: 7 months ago

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We found that dns-exporter demonstrates a positive version release cadence with at least one new version released in the past 12 months.

As a healthy sign for on-going project maintenance, we found that the GitHub repository had at least 1 pull request or issue interacted with by the community.

Community

Limited

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Contributing.md: No
Code of Conduct: No
Contributors: 4
Funding: Yes

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Package

Python Versions Compatibility: >=3.9

Age: 2 years
Latest Release: 8 months ago
Dependencies: 3 Direct
Versions: 17
Maintainers: 1
Wheels: OS Independent

Readme

dns_exporter

dns_exporter is a multi-target Prometheus exporter with an exclusive focus on DNS monitoring. It is built on the excellent libraries dnspython and the Prometheus Python client library.

dns_exporter can be used to monitor availability and performance of DNS servers, and to validate the responses they return. It can monitor recursive and authoritative servers regardless of the software they run. You can use it to make sure your (or your providers) DNS servers are sending the replies you expect and configure Prometheus and Alertmanager to notify you if something stops working.

dns_exporter works similar to the Blackbox exporter where Prometheus asks the exporter to scrape the target, rather than the exporter itself being the target. This is called the Multi Target Exporter Pattern. It is typically used in black-box style exporters where 1) the thing you are monitoring is not under your control, or 2) you want to measure the path as well. Often when monitoring DNS both 1) and 2) are relevant.

This means that for each scrape Prometheus speaks HTTP to the dns_exporter which then speaks DNS with the target DNS server and returns the resulting metrics over HTTP to Prometheus. dns_exporter supports doing DNS queries over plain port 53 UDP and TCP, as well as DoT, DoH and DoQ.

Installation

dns_exporter is not yet in any OS package managers but installing dns_exporter can be done from pypi. This is the recommended way to install for now:

pip install dns_exporter

There is also a Docker image so you can get your container on:

docker run -p 15353:15353 tykling/dns_exporter:latest

Documentation

The documentation is available on ReadTheDocs

Grafana Dashboard

There is a Grafana dashboard you can use as a starting point for your own dashboards.

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dns-exporter dependencies

prometheus-client pysocks pyyaml

FAQs

What is dns-exporter?

Multi-target Prometheus exporter with an exclusive focus on DNS monitoring. Visit Snyk Advisor to see a full health score report for dns-exporter, including popularity, security, maintenance & community analysis.

Is dns-exporter popular?

The python package dns-exporter receives a total of 650 weekly downloads. As such, dns-exporter popularity was classified as limited. Visit the popularity section on Snyk Advisor to see the full health analysis.

Is dns-exporter well maintained?

We found indications that dns-exporter is an Inactive project. See the full package health analysis to learn more about the package maintenance status.

Is dns-exporter safe to use?

The python package dns-exporter was scanned for known vulnerabilities and missing license, and no issues were found. Thus the package was deemed as safe to use. See the full health analysis review.

Last updated on 15 November-2024, at 21:51 (UTC).

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