Stats plugin
============

Stats plugin can be used to send statistics (CPU, disk usage, etc.) from mail
processes to the stats process. The stats process can later be queried what's
going on in the system. With imap_stats plugin you can get per-command level
statistics for IMAP commands.

Configuration
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---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
mail_plugins = $mail_plugins stats
protocol imap {
  mail_plugins = $mail_plugins imap_stats
}
plugin {
  # How often to send statistics to the stats process. (Must be specified or
stats are disabled.)
  stats_refresh = 5s
  # Track per-command statistics.
  stats_track_cmds = yes
}
---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Since the stats process tracks quite a lot of statistics, its memory usage has
to be limited by forgetting the more detailed stats first. These settings
configure how the memory usage it handled:

---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
stats_memory_limit = 16 M

stats_command_min_time = 1 mins
stats_domain_min_time = 12 hours
stats_ip_min_time = 12 hours
stats_session_min_time = 15 mins
stats_user_min_time = 1 hours
---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Looking
=======

The 'doveadm stats dump' can be used to output raw statistics data. Ideally
there would be a nice GUI that could be used to zoom around in the data, but
that's not implemented yet. For now there is an internal 'doveadm stats top'
command, but a much better one can be found as a perl script:stats-top.pl
[http://www.dovecot.org/tools/stats-top.pl], which also requires stats.pl
[http://www.dovecot.org/tools/stats.pl].

(This file was created from the wiki on 2013-11-24 04:42)
