Monitoring unbound?

[Phil Porada]

You should check out the unbound_exporter which we took over development
from Kumina some years ago. We've been using it to great effect ever since.
https://github.com/letsencrypt/unbound_exporter

On Tue, Nov 11, 2025, 10:35 AM Havard Eidnes via Unbound-users <
unbound-users at lists.nlnetlabs.nl> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> at work we like monitoring our recursive resolvers.  To that end
> we use the collectd package, and our backend is (judging by the
> name) graphite (can you tell I don't "own" it myself?), while
> presentation is via grafana.
>
> A long time ago I found this external plugin for collectd,
>
>   https://github.com/falzm/collectd-unbound
>
> which was apparently archived in 2021, no longer being developed.
> Of course, I have a few patches to it...  This one in turn
> depends on the external-to-collectd API presented by
>
>   https://github.com/collectd/go-collectd
>
> All this wrapped up in NetBSD's pkgsrc's patch + build system.
>
> Now, the sad part is that these are (for now) un-committed pkgsrc
> packages (yes, I'm looking to fix that), and the build of them
> has apparently fallen by the wayside with recent-ish updates --
> the latter now apparently depends on the collectd-dev (Debian?)
> package, and collectd itself fails to install one of the header
> files it wants to include, ref.
>
>    # collectd.org/plugin/fake
>    plugin/fake/shutdown.go:6:11: fatal error: plugin.h: No such file or
> directory
>        6 | // #include "plugin.h"
>          |           ^~~~~~~~~~
>    compilation terminated.
>
> 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.  Surely something less rickety has
> been put together?  Bonus points for integration with graphite
> and grafana.
>
> Best regards,
>
> - Håvard
>
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