Pi-hole InfluxDB Monitor

Export Pi-hole statistics to InfluxDB 2.x.

Environment Variables

Name	Description	Default
INTERVAL_SECONDS	Interval (in seconds) between polling	60
PIHOLE_ALIAS	Comma-separated list of aliases for the Pi-hole instances	pihole
PIHOLE_ADDRESS	Comma-separated list of Pi-hole adddresses to poll	http://pi.hole:80
PIHOLE_TOKEN	Comma-separated list of Pi-hole API tokens*
PIHOLE_NUM_TOP_ITEMS	Number of top domains and ads to return	10
PIHOLE_NUM_TOP_CLIENTS	Number of top clients to return	10
INFLUXDB_ADDRESS	Address of the InfluxDB instance	http://influxdb:8086
INFLUXDB_ORG	InfluxDB organization	my-org
INFLUXDB_TOKEN	InfluxDB auth token
INFLUXDB_BUCKET	InfluxDB bucket for storing the data	pihole
INFLUXDB_CREATE_BUCKET	Whether or not to create the InfluxDB bucket if it does not already exist	False
INFLUXDB_VERIFY_SSL	Whether or not to verify the InfluxDB SSL certificate (only applicable when using an HTTPS address)	True

* Note: only required to retrieve data on top DNS queries, clients, etc.

Docker

docker run -d \
    -e PIHOLE_ALIAS="pihole" \
    -e PIHOLE_ADDRESS="http://pi.hole" \
    -e PIHOLE_TOKEN="pihole_api_token" \
    -e PIHOLE_NUM_TOP_ITEMS=25 \
    -e PIHOLE_NUM_TOP_CLIENTS=25 \
    -e INFLUXDB_ADDRESS="http://influxdb:8086" \
    -e INFLUXDB_ORG="my-org" \
    -e INFLUXDB_TOKEN="super_secret_token" \
    -e INFLUXDB_BUCKET="pihole" \
    avojak/pihole-influxdb:latest

Docker Compose

version: "3.9"
services:
  pihole-influxdb:
    image: avojak/pihole-influxdb:latest
    container_name: pihole-influxdb
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      - "PIHOLE_ALIAS=pihole"
      - "PIHOLE_ADDRESS=http://pi.hole"
      - "PIHOLE_TOKEN=pihole_api_token"
      - "PIHOLE_NUM_TOP_ITEMS=25"
      - "PIHOLE_NUM_TOP_CLIENTS=25"
      - "INFLUXDB_ADDRESS=http://influxdb:8086"
      - "INFLUXDB_ORG=my-org"
      - "INFLUXDB_TOKEN=super_secret_token"
      - "INFLUXDB_BUCKET=pihole"

Command Line

python3 pihole-influxdb.py \
    --pihole-alias "pihole" \
    --pihole-address "http://pi.hole" \
    --pihole-token "pihole_api_token" \
    --pihole-num-top-items 25 \
    --pihole-num-top-clients 25 \
    --influxdb-address "http://influxdb:8096" \
    --influxdb-org "my-org" \
    --influxdb-token "super_secret_token" \
    --influxdb-bucket "pihole"

Screenshots

Simple dashboard in Grafana (See: grafana/Pi-hole.json):

References

Rough API documentation for the Pi-hole API is available here: https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-api/1863