> On 24/05/2021 10:20 Plutocrat <plutoc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I run logwatch on a few servers and the script on there which parses the
> dovecot logs provides waaaaaay too much detail, and contains a bunch of stuff
> I'm not interested in. There's not much point in having a log summary if its
> 100Kb long! The one for exim is also terrible, but I've replaced that with
> eximstats, and a bit of bash scripting and have something I can work with. I
> might at some point look at replacing that too.
>
> Now to my question. I haven't found anything in the dovecot family which
> compares to eximstats. I was wondering if there possibly is a report tool, or
> a way of extracting stats from doveadm just for key metrics such as 'number
> of POP logins in the last 24 hours', number of failed passwords, etc. Things
> that might be interesting on a logwatch report. Or maybe someone has written
> a script already that can be used in logwatch in perl, python, bash,
> whatever. Any pointers, suggestions, or ideas for useful summary metrics to
> pull out of the logfiles are appreciated.
>
> I suspect I might end up writing one myself anyway, but I'm just keen to see
> what already exists, get the benefit of anyone else's experiences in this
> matter before I start.
>
> P.
with recent 2.3.14
metric auth_failed {
filter=event=auth_request_finished and (not success=yes)
group_by = service
}
service stats {
inet_listener http {
port = 9900
}
}
should produce
auth_failed_pop3 etc. which you can collect with prometheus, or you can use
`doveadm stats dump`
Aki
