Hi!
Seems ubuntu is missing this for whatever odd reason. You can try
https://repo.dovecot.org/.
The metrics filter syntax was changed in 2.3.12.
Aki
> On 26/05/2021 06:31 Plutocrat <plutoc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> OK, so I started playing with this. I'm running dovecot 2.3.7 on this server
> (Ubuntu 20.04 LTS), so when I created a conf.d/95-plugins.conf file with the
> content below, it wasn't happy about the metric stanza. However I dug around
> in the documentation and found another few metrics to get going with that my
> older version was happy with. I left it overnight.
>
> When I came back in the morning, doveadm stats dump gave me ... a big line of
> zeros! Oh.
>
> Looking around further, I found that I needed to enable the mail_plugins
> variable, both in the main config, and also under the imap and pop protocols.
> So that looked like this:
>
> # In 10-master.conf
> mail_plugins = stats
>
> # In 20-imap.conf
> protocol imap {
> #mail_plugins = quota imap_quota
> mail_plugins = $mail_plugins quota imap_quota
> }
> So now a config dump gives
> protocol imap {
> mail_plugins = stats quota imap_quota
> ... and then the same edit in 20-pop.conf
>
> Right. Restarted the server, all looking good, but now 'doveadm stats dump'
> gives me
> Fatal: Plugin 'stats' not found from directory /usr/lib/dovecot/modules
>
> And sure enough, the stats plugin isn't there. And systemctl status dovecot
> shows there is no stats daemon running.
>
> Now the strange bit. I can't apt install dovecot-stats, because there doesn't
> seem to be a dovecot-stats package available for Ubuntu!
>
> Not sure how to proceed here. Will start looking for another repo, but at
> this point, I've already spend a few hours hacking around. I could have
> knocked up some log processing bash script in half that time! Isn't that
> always the way ...
>
> P.
>
> On 24/05/2021 15.52, Aki Tuomi wrote:
> >
> >> 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
> >
