BIND DNS Monitoring Template for Zabbix

Overview

BIND DNS monitoring template for Zabbix 7.0+

May work with Zabbix 6.4 as it uses dependent items logic, but hasn't been tested.

Monitors:

• DNS Query Types (A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, etc.)
• Query Success/Failure Rates
• TCP/UDP Distribution
• IPv4/IPv6 Request Distribution
• Authentication Answers
• Dropped Queries
• NXDOMAIN Responses

Author

Christos Diamantis (christos-diamantis)

Macros used

Name	Description	Default	Type
{$BIND_STAT_URL}	URL for BIND statistics endpoint	http://127.0.0.1:8053/json	Text macro
{$BIND_PORT}	Bind port	53	Text macro

Template links

There are no template links in this template.

Discovery rules

There are no discovery rules.

Items collected

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Get BIND stats	Gets raw statistics from BIND JSON endpoint	HTTP agent	bind.stats.get
BIND Port status	Gets the remote status of BIND port	Zabbix agent	net.tcp.service[tcp,{HOST.HOST},{$BIND_PORT}]
Queries A	Rate of A record queries	Dependent item	bind.queries.a
Queries AAAA	Rate of AAAA record queries	Dependent item	bind.queries.aaaa
Queries ANY	Rate of ANY queries	Dependent item	bind.queries.ANY
Queries AuthAns	Rate of queries authoritatively answered	Dependent item	bind.queries.QryAuthAns
Queries AXFR	Rate of AXFR queries	Dependent item	bind.queries.axfr
Queries CDNSKEY	Rate of CDNSKEY record queries	Dependent item	bind.queries.cdnskey
Queries CNAME	Rate of CNAME record queries	Dependent item	bind.queries.cname
Queries DNSKEY	Rate of DNSKEY record queries	Dependent item	bind.queries.dnskey
Queries Dropped	Rate of dropped queries	Dependent item	bind.queries.QryDropped
Queries DS	Rate of DS record queries	Dependent item	bind.queries.ds
Queries Failure	Rate of failed queries	Dependent item	bind.queries.QryFailure
Queries HTTPS	Rate of HTTPS queries	Dependent item	bind.queries.https
Queries MX	Rate of MX record queries	Dependent item	bind.queries.mx
Queries NS	Rate of NS record queries	Dependent item	bind.queries.ns
Queries NXDOMAIN	Rate of queries that returned NXDOMAIN	Dependent item	bind.queries.QryNXDOMAIN
Queries Nxrrset	Rate of queries that returned Nxrrset	Dependent item	bind.queries.QryNxrrset
Queries Others	Rate of other record queries	Dependent item	bind.queries.others
Queries PTR	Rate of PTR record queries	Dependent item	bind.queries.ptr
Queries Requestv4	Rate of IPv4 requests received	Dependent item	bind.queries.Requestv4
Queries Requestv6	Rate of IPv6 requests received	Dependent item	bind.queries.Requestv6
Queries RRSIG	Rate of RRSIG record queries	Dependent item	bind.queries.rrsig
Queries SOA	Rate of SOA record queries	Dependent item	bind.queries.soa
Queries SPF	Rate of SPF record queries	Dependent item	bind.queries.spf
Queries SRV	Rate of SRV record queries	Dependent item	bind.queries.srv
Queries Success	Rate of success queries	Dependent item	bind.queries.QrySuccess
Queries TCP	Rate of TCP queries	Dependent item	bind.queries.QryTCP
Queries TLSA	Rate of TLSA record queries	Dependent item	bind.queries.tlsa
Queries TXT	Rate of TXT record queries	Dependent item	bind.queries.txt
Queries UDP	Rate of UDP queries	Dependent item	bind.queries.QryUDP

Triggers

Name	Description	Expression	Priority
BIND port is down	Bind port is not responding for 3 consecutive minutes	Expression: max(/BIND DNS by HTTP/net.tcp.service[tcp,{HOST.HOST},{$BIND_PORT}],3m)=0	high

References

• BIND Statistics Channel Documentation
• BIND JSON Stats Schema