Bind Exporter

Export BIND (named/dns) v9+ service metrics to Prometheus.

Getting started

go get github.com/prometheus-community/bind_exporter
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/prometheus-community/bind_exporter
make
./bind_exporter [flags]

docker pull prometheuscommunity/bind-exporter:v0.3.0

Run in a Docker container (as daemon), use --network host when communicating with named via localhost:

docker run -d --network host prometheuscommunity/bind-exporter:v0.3.0

Run bind_exporter in a Docker container and communicate with named on non-default statistics URL:

docker run -d prometheuscommunity/bind-exporter:v0.3.0 -bind.stats-url http://<IP/hostname>:8053

Make sure BIND was built with libxml2 support. You can check with the following command: named -V | grep libxml2.

Configure BIND to open a statistics channel. It's recommended to run the bind_exporter next to BIND, so it's only necessary to open a port locally.

statistics-channels {
  inet 127.0.0.1 port 8053 allow { 127.0.0.1; };
};