reverse_dns

Reverse DNS Processor Plugin

The reverse_dns processor does a reverse-dns lookup on tags (or fields) with IPs in them.

Telegraf minimum version: Telegraf 1.15.0

Global configuration options

In addition to the plugin-specific configuration settings, plugins support additional global and plugin configuration settings. These settings are used to modify metrics, tags, and field or create aliases and configure ordering, etc. See the CONFIGURATION.md for more details.

Configuration

# ReverseDNS does a reverse lookup on IP addresses to retrieve the DNS name
[[processors.reverse_dns]]
  ## For optimal performance, you may want to limit which metrics are passed to this
  ## processor. eg:
  ## namepass = ["my_metric_*"]

  ## cache_ttl is how long the dns entries should stay cached for.
  ## generally longer is better, but if you expect a large number of diverse lookups
  ## you'll want to consider memory use.
  cache_ttl = "24h"

  ## lookup_timeout is how long should you wait for a single dns request to repsond.
  ## this is also the maximum acceptable latency for a metric travelling through
  ## the reverse_dns processor. After lookup_timeout is exceeded, a metric will
  ## be passed on unaltered.
  ## multiple simultaneous resolution requests for the same IP will only make a
  ## single rDNS request, and they will all wait for the answer for this long.
  lookup_timeout = "3s"

  ## max_parallel_lookups is the maximum number of dns requests to be in flight
  ## at the same time. Requesting hitting cached values do not count against this
  ## total, and neither do mulptiple requests for the same IP.
  ## It's probably best to keep this number fairly low.
  max_parallel_lookups = 10

  ## ordered controls whether or not the metrics need to stay in the same order
  ## this plugin received them in. If false, this plugin will change the order
  ## with requests hitting cached results moving through immediately and not
  ## waiting on slower lookups. This may cause issues for you if you are
  ## depending on the order of metrics staying the same. If so, set this to true.
  ## keeping the metrics ordered may be slightly slower.
  ordered = false

  [[processors.reverse_dns.lookup]]
    ## get the ip from the field "source_ip", and put the result in the field "source_name"
    field = "source_ip"
    dest = "source_name"

  [[processors.reverse_dns.lookup]]
    ## get the ip from the tag "destination_ip", and put the result in the tag
    ## "destination_name".
    tag = "destination_ip"
    dest = "destination_name"

    ## If you would prefer destination_name to be a field instead, you can use a
    ## processors.converter after this one, specifying the order attribute.

Example

example config:

[[processors.reverse_dns]]
  [[processors.reverse_dns.lookup]]
    tag = "ip"
    dest = "domain"

- ping,ip=8.8.8.8 elapsed=300i 1502489900000000000
+ ping,ip=8.8.8.8,domain=dns.google. elapsed=300i 1502489900000000000