On July 15, 2017 at 8:59 PM Thomas Reifferscheid thomas@reifferscheid.org wrote:

Hello dovecot list,

I'm in the middle of creating a plugin for observium[1] and would like to have it create[2] statistical graphs of my dovecot server [3]. The current state can be found here: https://image.ibb.co/efOO9a/dovecot.png

However for visibility purposes it doesnt make sense and have observium plot two data sources with different orders of magnitudes right into one graph. So I'd like to ask for your valuable recommendations as for:

• What kind of data should be graphed? Global stats or on a per domain level?

• What data types to graph? (e.g. stats, getrusage, io, storage, auth check https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Statistics#line-65 for details)

• What values should be combined into a single graph?

• How often would you reset stats (cronjob calling doveadm stats reset)?

Thanks Thomas

Hi!

Just thought I'd remind about few things,

since v2.2.22 you can use doveadm -fjson, to print data in json format, which might be easier to parse.

since v2.2.22 you can use doveadm HTTP API to get the statistics over HTTP.

since v2.2.27 you can export stats to remote server every now and then using carbon format.

Aki