Monitoring
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Cyrus IMAP supports monitoring using Prometheus.

To use this functionality, Cyrus IMAP must have been built with the "
--enable-http" configure option enabled.


Setup
=====

   * Set the *prometheus_enabled* setting in imapd.conf(5) to "yes"

   * Add the *prometheus* module to your *httpmodules* in
     imapd.conf(5)

   * Set the *prometheus_need_auth*, *prometheus_update_freq* and
     *prometheus_stats_dir* settings in imapd.conf(5) to taste

   * Add a job to run promstatsd(8) to the DAEMON section of
     cyrus.conf(5) (the actual daemon process)

   * Add a job to run "promstatsd -c" to the START section of
     cyrus.conf(5) (this cleans up the stats files from the previous
     run)

   * Configure your Prometheus server to scrape
     http://yourserver.example.com/metrics


Configuration options
=====================

      "prometheus_enabled:" 0

         Whether tracking of service metrics for Prometheus is
         enabled.

      "prometheus_need_auth:" admin

         Authentication level required to fetch Prometheus metrics.

         Allowed values: *none*, *user*, *admin*

      "prometheus_update_freq:" 10s

         Frequency in at which promstatsd should re-collate its
         statistics report.  The minimum value is 1 second, the
         default is 10 seconds.

         For backward compatibility, if no unit is specified, seconds
         is assumed.

      "prometheus_stats_dir:" <none>

         Directory to use for gathering prometheus statistics.  If
         specified, must be an absolute path.  If not specified, the
         default path $configdirectory/stats/ will be used.  It may be
         advantageous to locate this directory on ephemeral storage.

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