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[[metricbeat-module-coredns]]
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== Coredns module

This is the CoreDNS module. The CoreDNS module collects metrics from the
CoreDNS https://github.com/coredns/coredns/tree/master/plugin/metrics[prometheus exporter endpoint].

The default metricset is `stats`.

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=== Compatibility

The CoreDNS module is tested with CoreDNS 1.5.0


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=== Dashboard

The CoreDNS module comes with a predefined dashboard. For example:

image::./images/metricbeat_coredns_dashboard.png[]


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=== Example configuration

The Coredns module supports the standard configuration options that are described
in <<configuration-metricbeat>>. Here is an example configuration:

[source,yaml]
----
metricbeat.modules:
- module: coredns
  metricsets: ["stats"]
  period: 10s
  hosts: ["localhost:9153"]
----

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=== Metricsets

The following metricsets are available:

* <<metricbeat-metricset-coredns-stats,stats>>

include::coredns/stats.asciidoc[]

