[Stork-dev] BIND9 stats not showing

[Slawek Figiel]

Brendan,

 > the query hit ratio shows with a red exclamation point,
 > which indicates that something is not being processed right.

To be strict, the exclamation mark indicates the ratio is alarmingly 
low. It means a lot of packets in your network are dropping.
It doesn't indicate any problems with processing data in Stork itself.

 > i thought data/visualizations like what is listed on this page
 > (https://kb.isc.org/docs/monitoring-recommendations-for-bind-9) would
 > be available.

Unfortunately, Stork doesn't present more data in UI. But you can 
integrate it with Grafana dashboard. Look at the screenshots under the 
"Prometheus and Grafana" section on the main Stork repository page: 
https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/stork#prometheus-and-grafana

We deliver some ready-to-use Grafana dashboards in the Stork server 
binary package. One of them is dedicated to BIND 9. You can find them in 
the "/var/lib/grafana/dashboards" directory.

 > is this something that may be seen in the future, or
 > are things more "greenfield" at this point.

Grafana is an excellent tool to visualize numeric statistics in time. We 
decided to integrate with it instead of implementing similar 
capabilities in Stork on our own. It allowed us to put more effort into 
more complex Kea- and BIND 9-specific features.
The Stork agent acts like a Prometheus exporter. You can use it in this 
role even without a Stork server.

Regards,
Slawek

On 06/02/2024 20:31, brendan kearney wrote:
> Slawek,
> 
> maybe "dashboard" was not the right term to use.  as you say, in the
> services page for bind9, i can see the bind instances on the servers
> that are running bind, and when i click on them, i can see limited
> details.  the query hit ratio shows with a red exclamation point,
> which indicates that something is not being processed right.  i
> thought data/visualizations like what is listed on this page
> (https://kb.isc.org/docs/monitoring-recommendations-for-bind-9) would
> be available.  is this something that may be seen in the future, or
> are things more "greenfield" at this point.
> 
> thanks for the quick response
> 
> brendan
> 
> On Tue, Feb 6, 2024 at 2:25 PM Slawek Figiel <slawek at isc.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Brendan!
>>
>> Unfortunately, no BIND 9-related data exists on the dashboard (except
>> for eventual events). The details of the BIND 9 daemons are available on
>> its specific application pages. You can list them by clicking the
>> "Services" button on the navbar and selecting "BIND 9 Apps".
>>
>> The current Stork server's capabilities to monitor BIND 9 are a bit
>> limited. We are open to suggestions on how to improve them. What data
>> would you like to have presented on the dashboard?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Slawek
>>
>>
>>
>> On 06/02/2024 20:17, brendan kearney wrote:
>>> list members,
>>>
>>> i have stork stood up and have the agent installed on a machine that
>>> is running bind9.  the statistics channel and rndc control is
>>> configuured and working, but the stork dashboard does not show any
>>> stats for the bind instance.  i can perform a curl for the statistics
>>> and get over 1 MB back in xml, so it seems that things should be
>>> working.  i seem to be missing something, but am not sure what.  how
>>> can i get the bind9 stats shown in the stork dashboard for bind
>>> instances?
>>>
>>> thanks in advance,
>>> brendan
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