Monitoring unbound?

[Petr Menšík]

Such topic were recently started also on BIND9. If you can document what 
different statistics is in use now, it might be used to create one 
common format used by any DNS service. It is silly when each have 
different format, which can be transformed by some external module into 
format common on some monitoring service.

I am not sure unbound should offer it on HTTP service socket, but it 
would be great if it could provide general numbers in common format. If 
it had some numbers different from other implementations, export only 
those in implementation specific extension. But I think majority of DNS 
software has similar numbers they want to watch.

On 11/11/2025 16:38, Tarko Tikan via Unbound-users wrote:
> hey,
>
>> 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.
>
> Prometheus and https://github.com/letsencrypt/unbound_exporter
>
> Ideally unbound would expose the metrics directly via HTTP in 
> prometheus format. As NSD got native support earlier in 2025, there is 
> some hope I guess :)
>
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