On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 01:25:45PM -0400, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > > On Mar 17, 2017, at 1:06 PM, Sean Son <linuxmailinglistsem...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > Hello all > > > > We would like to monitor Postfix mail queues using SMNP so we > > can receive alerts whenever the mail queue reaches a certain > > threshold. What OID and MIB would we have to use to be able to > > monitor Postfix mail queues? > > I don't recall a specific MIB that covers mail queues, however > I recommend against monitoring the queue's message count, too > many false alarms from spikes in traffic. What is more useful > to monitor is average time from queue entry to queue exit, and > also average age in the active queue. > > See QSHAPE_README and also monitor the "c+d" delay sum from > the "delays=a/b/c/d" log entries (de-duping for multi-recipient > deliveries of a single message). At prior employer, we computed > a slowly exponentially decaying moving average of the "c+d" times > as indicators of current congestion, and queue age as indicators > of "stuck" messages. > > Just counting messages is not terribly useful IMHO. >
Is the delay information available in /var/spool/postfix/public/showq ? So could the info be used by https://github.com/kumina/postfix_exporter ? Groeten Geert Stappers -- Leven en laten leven
