Monitor BIND DNS Server with Prometheus and Grafana on Ubuntu Server

Systemd service
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[Unit]
Description=Bind Exporter
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target
[Service]
ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
ExecStart=/etc/bind_exporter/bind_exporter
–bind.pid-file=/var/run/named/named.pid
–bind.timeout=20s
–web.listen-address=0.0.0.0:9153
–web.telemetry-path=/metrics
–bind.stats-url=http://127.0.0.1:8053/
–bind.stats-groups=server,view,tasks
Restart=always
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Prometheus Scraping
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– job_name: ‘bind_exporter’
static_configs:
– targets: [‘10.11.1.2:9153’]
labels:
alias: bind_exporter

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

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by Ripon4You

linux dns server