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DOVEAD-SERVIC-STATUS

Section: Dovecot (1)
Updated: February 2026
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NAME

dovead-servic-status- Show information about dovecot services

SYNOPSIS

doveadm [lB]GLOBAL OPTIONS[rB] service status [lB]service [lB]...[rB][rB]

DESCRIPTION

doveadm service status produces a table with a line for each service, containing the following details: name

: the name of the service

process_count

: the number of processes actually running for the service

process_avail

: the number of additional processes that can be spawned for the service

process_limit

: the maximum number of processes that can be active for the service

client_limit

: the maximum number of connections that the service will handle simultaneously

throttle_secs

: seconds to wait before launching another process when processes are dying unexpectedly early for the service

exit_failure_last

: timestamp when the last process was terminated abnormally for the service

exit_failures_in_sec

: number of abnormally terminated processes for the service in the last second

last_drop_warning

: timestamp when the last time a "dropping client connections" warning was logged

listen_pending

: if the master process is queuing connections that need to be dispatched

listening

: if service is listening

doveadm_stop

: if the service has been stopped by doveadm(1)

process_total

: the total number of processes forked for the service since the service start.

GLOBAL OPTIONS

Global doveadm(1) -D

: Enables verbosity and debug messages.

-O

: Do not read any config file, just use defaults. The dovecot_storage_version setting defaults to the latest version, but can be overridden with

-k

: Preserve entire environment for doveadm, not just import_environment setting.

-v

: Enables verbosity, including progress counter.

-i instanc-name

: If using multiple Dovecot instances, choose the config file based on this instance name. See instance_name setting for more information.

-c confi-file

: Read configuration from the given confi-file. By default it first reads config socket, and then falls back to /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf. You can also point this to config socket of some instance running compatible version.

-o setting=value

: Overrides the configuration setting from /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf and from the userdb with the given value. In order to override multiple settings, the -o option may be specified multiple times.

-f formatter

Specifies the formatter for formatting the output. Supported formatters are: flow

: prints each line with key=value pairs.

json

: prints a JSON array of JSON objects.

pager

: prints each key: value pair on its own line and separates records with form feed character (^L).

tab

: prints a table header followed by tab separated value lines.

table

: prints a table header followed by adjusted value lines.

ARGUMENTS

service (optional)

: Filters the list according to the specified service or services. By default, all dovecot services are listed.

EXAMPLES

doveadm service status

name: ima-login
process_count: 0
process_avail: 0
process_limit: 1
client_limit: 1000
throttle_secs: 0
exit_failure_last: 0
exit_failures_in_sec: 0
last_drop_warning: 0
listen_pending: n
listening: y
doveadm_stop: n
process_total: 0

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs, including doveconf-n output, to the Dovecot Mailing List ladovecot@dovecot.orgra. Information about reporting bugs is available at: https://dovecot.org/bugreport.html