Port 8080 is PowerMTA’s hidden gem for real-time analytics. Learn how to unlock HTTP stats, set up proactive monitoring, and keep your email delivery healthy. If you manage a PowerMTA (PMTA) cluster, you probably spend most of your time watching mail logs ( /var/log/pmta ) or parsing pmta show queue . While those are essential, there is a much cleaner, faster, and automation-friendly way to check the pulse of your MTA: Port 8080 .
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Example telegraf.conf snippet:
After reloading PMTA ( pmta reload ), test it locally: Port 8080 is PowerMTA’s hidden gem for real-time analytics
[[inputs.http]] urls = ["http://localhost:8080/pmta/stats"] data_format = "value" data_type = "string" [[processors.regex]] [[processors.regex.fields]] key = "body" pattern = "(\w+\.\w+\.\w+)\s+(\d+)" replacement = "$1:$2" While those are essential, there is a much
http-listener listen-address :8080 # Restrict to localhost or your monitoring IP allow "127.0.0.1" allow "10.0.0.0/8"