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Synproxy

Overview​

The synproxy plugin gathers the synproxy counters. Synproxy is a Linux netfilter module used for SYN attack mitigation. The use of synproxy is documented in man iptables-extensions under the SYNPROXY section.

Configuration​

The synproxy plugin does not need any configuration

[[inputs.synproxy]]
  # no configuration

Troubleshooting​

Execute the following CLI command in Linux to test the synproxy counters:

cat /proc/net/stat/synproxy