PowerDNS:PowerDNS Reporting

PowerDNS Reporting

Reporting

The PowerDNS platform knows various types of reporting. It provides both reporting about the functioning of the DNS platform itself (both through real-time dashboards and live displays, as well as through periodically generated reports on average performance for a management overview) and about the malware protection and other dynamic platform capabilities like the parental control functionality.

Reporting: Generic DNS

PowerDNS Platform reports on its operation in a variety of ways:

• Attractive and actionable dashboards, with global and regional status updates and statistics
• Live display of currently queried domain names and active IP addresses
• (Scheduled) reporting giving summaries of operational performance over configured time periods
  • XML files of raw data underlying reports
• Full insight into exact traffic DNS, including who looked up what, speed and status of each query (optional)

Attractive dashboards

PowerDNS dashboards plot statistics about both historical and 'here and now' operations. They are good for rapidly updated, wall mounted, status panels for global operations monitoring. These graphs can also assist technicians in determining the cause of degraded services, and help to troubleshoot local networking problems, connectivity issues, or issues with the name server functions.

The dashboards have the following features:

• Grouped by region
• Actionable metrics
• Color-coded status of regions and individual servers
• Attack patterns
• Mitigation measures
• Can be changed and configured by Customer staff

Some dashboard examples are shown below. These live reporting dashboards are based on industry standard graphing protocols (Carbon / Graphana, Graphite-API) and can also be integrated into existing network / operations monitoring solutions.