Syslogd

Ads blocking with OpenBSD unbound(8)

2022-09-22 1838 words, 9 minutes
openbsd
unbound
ad
privacy
pi-hole
syslogd
awk
grafana
influxdb
collectd

The Internet is full of Ads and Trackers. And a way to avoid those is to simply not reach the stinky servers. This can be partially done using a local DNS resolver. This article is a reboot of both the 2019 Blocking Ads using unbound on OpenBSD and Storing unbound logs into InfluxDB posts ; hopefully improved.

Storing unbound(8) logs into InfluxDB

2019-04-17 828 words, 4 minutes
dashboard
grafana
influxdb
log
openbsd
pi-hole
syslog-ng
syslogd
unbound

I’m using unbound(8) on OpenBSD to block Ads . In the logs, I can see which domains were queried and blocked ; but I like to have a more graphical overview of whats happening over weeks. So I stole a few ideas from the Pi-Hole Web Interface , routed the logs to InfluxDB via syslog-ng and rendered statistics using Grafana.