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Postfix

Auto-Detection
Health Check
Built-in Metrics

Bleemeo monitors the Postfix mail transfer agent through automatic service detection, SMTP health checks, and mail queue metrics.

Auto-Detection

Section titled “Auto-Detection”

Glouton automatically detects Postfix instances listening on port 25. If the auto-detected parameters are incorrect, you can override them manually.

Terminal window
sudo tee /etc/glouton/conf.d/99-postfix.conf > /dev/null << 'EOF'
service:
  # For a Postfix running outside a container
  - type: "postfix"
    address: "127.0.0.1"
    port: 25


  # For an additional Postfix running outside a container
  - type: "postfix"
    instance: "NAME_ASSOCIATED_WITH_YOUR_ADDITIONAL_SERVICE"
    address: "127.0.0.1"
    port: 26


  # For a Postfix running in a Docker container
  - type: "postfix"
    instance: "CONTAINER_NAME"
    address: "172.17.0.2"
    port: 25
EOF

Health Check

Section titled “Health Check”

Glouton performs an SMTP health check when the service listens on port 25.

Metric Description
service_status Status of Postfix

Built-in Metrics

Section titled “Built-in Metrics”
Metric Description
postfix_queue_size Number of mails queued