On 17.5.2019 13.46, Roel van Duijnhoven via dovecot wrote: > Hello, > > I recently upgraded to the latest version of Dovecot, and want to use > the newly introduced logging / event system. I want to fetch the > statistics every couple of seconds, and push those to our logging > platform. Metrics such as: number of IMAP commands, average time they > took, etc. > > However the metrics as reported by Dovecot continously increment. So I > see two solutions: > > * Our solution could keep track of the previous values. But that > could also break if the statistics are reset for some reason (e.g. > threshold reached). > * My second thought was to use "stats -r". That /should/ clear the > statistics directly after fetching them. And thus, give a better > picture. However I am not sure if this gives me actual useful results. > > Or is there maybe a better approach to fetch statistics that I overlooked? > > Thanks a lot. > > Best, > Roel van Duijnhoven
For the new metrics, we are working on exporting features, which are not yet finished. For old stats you can use carbon protocol. Aki
