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DOVEAD-STATS

Section: Dovecot (1)
Updated: February 2026
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NAME

dovead-stats- Inspect or reset stats

SYNOPSIS

doveadm [lB]GLOBAL OPTIONS[rB] stats add [lB] -description <string> [rB] [lB] -exporter <name> [rB] [lB] -exporte-include <fields> [rB] [lB] -fields <fields> [rB] [lB]-group_by <fields> [rB] name <filter> doveadm [lB]GLOBAL OPTIONS[rB] stats dump [lB] -s <stats socket path> [rB] [lB] -r [rB] [lB] -f <fields> [rB] doveadm [lB]GLOBAL OPTIONS[rB] stats top [lB]-s <stats socket path>[rB] [lB]-b[rB] [lB]sort <field>[rB] doveadm [lB]GLOBAL OPTIONS[rB] stats remove [lB] <name> [rB] doveadm [lB]GLOBAL OPTIONS[rB] stats reopen

DESCRIPTION

Commands to inspect and edit Dovecot stats/metrics generation.

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.

COMMANDS

stats add

OPTIONS

-description <string>

: Huma-readable description of the metric. This is included in the HELP text sent to OpenMetrics.

-exporter <name>

: Export events matching the filter with this event exporter. If empty, the events are used only for statistics, and no exporting is done.

-exporte-include <fields>

: Specifies which parts of the event are exported to the serialized event. The fields are spac-separated.

-fields <fields>

: A list of fields included in the metric. All events have a default duration field that does not need to be listed explicitly.

-grou-by <fields>

: Creates a new group_by for dynamically generating su-metrics based on the specified field's values.

ARGUMENTS

name

: Metric name.

filter

Filter options:

*: user=<wildcard>

: Match user.

*: domain=<wildcard>

: Match DNS domain name.

*: session=<str>

: Match session identifier.

*: ip=<ip>[lB]/<mask>[rB]

: Match local or remote IP.

*: since=<timestamp>

: Match session start time.

*: connected

: Show only connected sessions.

stats dump

doveadm [lB]GLOBAL OPTIONS[rB] stats dump [lB] -s <stats socket path> [rB] [lB] -r [rB] [lB] -f <fields> [rB] doveadm stats dump is used to output statistics.

OPTIONS

-f

: TODO

-r

: Resets statistics after dumping.

-s socketpath

: Stats socket path.

stats remove

doveadm [lB]GLOBAL OPTIONS[rB] stats remove [lB] <name> [rB] doveadm stats remove is used to remove metrics from statistics.

ARGUMENTS

name

: The metric name to remove.

stats reopen

doveadm [lB]GLOBAL OPTIONS[rB] stats reopen doveadm stats reopen is used to reopen any file exporter files.

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

REPORTING BUGS

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