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DNS Check Receiver

OpenTelemetry Collector receiver · contrib distribution

The DNS Check Receiver can be used for synthetic checks against DNS servers.

Component ID: contrib-dnscheckreceiver
Name: dnscheckreceiver
Type: receiver
Distribution: contrib
Repository: opentelemetry-collector-contrib

Stability

Level	Signals
development	metrics

Attributes

Attribute	Type	Description
`dns.domain`	string	Domain name queried.
`dns.rcode`	int	DNS response code (RCODE) returned for the query. Only present when a response was received from the server, including non-success responses such as NXDOMAIN, SERVFAIL, or REFUSED. Absent when no response was received at all (e.g. timeout or network unreachable). See the RCODE Reference table in the README for the meaning of each value, based on the IANA DNS Parameters registry (https://www.iana.org/assignments/dns-parameters/dns-parameters.xhtml#dns-parameters-6).
`dns.record.type`	string	Record type queried.
`dns.resolved.all.ips`	string	All resolved IP addresses.
`dns.resolved.ip`	string	First/primary resolved IP address.
`dns.server`	string	Address of the DNS server queried.
`error.message`	string	Error message recorded when the DNS check fails.

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