Such topic were recently started also on BIND9. If you can document what
different statistics is in use now, it might be used to create one
common format used by any DNS service. It is silly when each have
different format, which can be transformed by some external module into
format common on some monitoring service.
I am not sure unbound should offer it on HTTP service socket, but it
would be great if it could provide general numbers in common format. If
it had some numbers different from other implementations, export only
those in implementation specific extension. But I think majority of DNS
software has similar numbers they want to watch.
On 11/11/2025 16:38, Tarko Tikan via Unbound-users wrote:
hey,
Now, before I go on to report these issues to the respective
parties (I'll probably do that anyway...), I'd like to ask what
others do in terms of monitoring and visualization of the
monitored values for unbound.
Prometheus and https://github.com/letsencrypt/unbound_exporter
Ideally unbound would expose the metrics directly via HTTP in
prometheus format. As NSD got native support earlier in 2025, there is
some hope I guess :)
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