[Stork-dev] BIND9 stats not showing

[brendan kearney]

ugg... setting up a cottage industry of tools and services around
stork for visualization is not what i was looking to get in to.
especially since grafana requires prometheus.  just too much to take
on, for me and my one user... :D

in terms of the dropped packets, where do i look for what is being
dropped?  what is being dropped? traffic between stork server and
agent, or something else?  when i mouse over the icon, it says 0 hits
and 0 misses.  i am fairly certain that is not accurate.  from the
stats file:

++ Cache Statistics ++
[View: bpk2 (Cache: bpk2)]
              673135 cache hits
                  28 cache misses
              191398 cache hits (from query)
              162113 cache misses (from query)
                   0 cache records deleted due to memory exhaustion
              137473 cache records deleted due to TTL expiration
                3591 cache database nodes
                2079 cache database hash buckets
             3618520 cache tree memory total
             1431595 cache tree memory in use
             2595522 cache tree highest memory in use
              524288 cache heap memory total
              132096 cache heap memory in use
              133120 cache heap highest memory in use

thank you,

brendan

On Tue, Feb 6, 2024 at 3:48 PM Slawek Figiel <slawek at isc.org> wrote:
>
> 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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