.. _mod-stats:

Statistics collector
--------------------

This modules gathers various counters from the query resolution and server internals,
and offers them as a key-value storage. Any module may update the metrics or simply hook
in new ones.

.. code-block:: none

	-- Enumerate metrics
	> stats.list()
	[answer.cached] => 486178
	[iterator.tcp] => 490
	[answer.noerror] => 507367
	[answer.total] => 618631
	[iterator.udp] => 102408
	[query.concurrent] => 149

	-- Query metrics by prefix
	> stats.list('iter')
	[iterator.udp] => 105104
	[iterator.tcp] => 490

	-- Set custom metrics from modules
	> stats['filter.match'] = 5
	> stats['filter.match']
	5

	-- Fetch most common queries
	> stats.frequent()
	[1] => {
		[type] => 2
		[count] => 4
		[name] => cz.
	}

	-- Fetch most common queries (sorted by frequency)
	> table.sort(stats.frequent(), function (a, b) return a.count > b.count end)

	-- Show recently contacted authoritative servers
	> stats.upstreams()
	[2a01:618:404::1] => {
	    [1] => 26 -- RTT
	}
	[128.241.220.33] => {
	    [1] => 31 - RTT
	}

Properties
^^^^^^^^^^

.. function:: stats.get(key)

  :param string key: i.e. ``"answer.total"``
  :return: ``number``

Return nominal value of given metric. 

.. function:: stats.set(key, val)

  :param string key:  i.e. ``"answer.total"``
  :param number val:  i.e. ``5``

Set nominal value of given metric.

.. function:: stats.list([prefix])

  :param string prefix:  optional metric prefix, i.e. ``"answer"`` shows only metrics beginning with "answer"

Outputs collected metrics as a JSON dictionary.

.. function:: stats.upstreams()

Outputs a list of recent upstreams and their RTT. It is sorted by time and stored in a ring buffer of
a fixed size. This means it's not aggregated and readable by multiple consumers, but also that
you may lose entries if you don't read quickly enough. The default ring size is 512 entries, and may be overriden on compile time by ``-DUPSTREAMS_COUNT=X``.

.. function:: stats.frequent()

Outputs list of most frequent iterative queries as a JSON array. The queries are sampled probabilistically,
and include subrequests. The list maximum size is 5000 entries, make diffs if you want to track it over time.

.. function:: stats.clear_frequent()

Clear the list of most frequent iterative queries.

.. function:: stats.expiring()

Outputs list of soon-to-expire records as a JSON array.
The list maximum size is 5000 entries, make diffs if you want to track it over time.

.. function:: stats.clear_expiring()

Clear the list of soon expiring records.

Built-in statistics
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

* ``answer.total`` - total number of answered queries
* ``answer.cached`` - number of queries answered from cache
* ``answer.noerror`` - number of **NOERROR** answers
* ``answer.nodata`` - number of **NOERROR**, but empty answers
* ``answer.nxdomain`` - number of **NXDOMAIN** answers
* ``answer.servfail`` - number of **SERVFAIL** answers
* ``answer.1ms`` - number of answers completed in 1ms
* ``answer.10ms`` - number of answers completed in 10ms
* ``answer.50ms`` - number of answers completed in 50ms
* ``answer.100ms`` - number of answers completed in 100ms
* ``answer.250ms`` - number of answers completed in 250ms
* ``answer.500ms`` - number of answers completed in 500ms
* ``answer.1000ms`` - number of answers completed in 1000ms
* ``answer.1500ms`` - number of answers completed in 1500ms
* ``answer.slow`` - number of answers that took more than 1500ms
* ``query.edns`` - number of queries with EDNS
* ``query.dnssec`` - number of queries with DNSSEC DO=1
