Time range: 30-day average (increase[30d] / 2,592,000s)
Data source: Victoria Metrics via MCP — pdns_auth_*_queries counters on datum-managed-auth-dns
Timestamp: 2026-07-13T20:15 UTC
PowerDNS auth exposes four cumulative COUNTER metrics:
| Metric | Meaning |
|---|---|
pdns_auth_udp4_queries |
Total UDP queries received over IPv4 |
pdns_auth_udp6_queries |
Total UDP queries received over IPv6 |
pdns_auth_tcp4_queries |
Total TCP queries received over IPv4 |
pdns_auth_tcp6_queries |
Total TCP queries received over IPv6 |
Average queries/sec over 30 days:
sum by (cluster) (increase(pdns_auth_udp4_queries[30d]) + increase(pdns_auth_tcp4_queries[30d])) / 2592000
Same for v6. Then v4% = v4 / (v4 + v6) * 100.
| Protocol | Avg Queries/sec | Share |
|---|---|---|
| UDP v4 | 58.55 | 82.3% |
| UDP v6 | 12.60 | 17.7% |
| TCP v4 | ~0 | — |
| TCP v6 | ~0 | — |
| Total | 71.15 | 100% |
TCP is negligible — all traffic is UDP.
| Cluster | v4 avg q/s | v6 avg q/s | Total | v4% | v6% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ae-north-1-alice (Israel) | 0.81 | 0.09 | 0.90 | 90.0% | 10.0% |
| au-east-1-alice (Sydney) | 1.37 | 0.10 | 1.47 | 93.3% | 6.7% |
| br-east-1-alice (Brazil) | 1.79 | 0.31 | 2.09 | 85.3% | 14.7% |
| ca-east-1-alice (Canada) | 2.03 | 0.14 | 2.17 | 93.4% | 6.6% |
| cl-central-1-alice (Chile) | 0.58 | 0.09 | 0.67 | 86.1% | 13.9% |
| de-central-1-alice (Germany) | 7.55 | 0.67 | 8.22 | 91.8% | 8.2% |
| gb-south-1-alice (UK) | 4.27 | 0.65 | 4.92 | 86.8% | 13.2% |
| in-west-1-alice (India) | 2.21 | 0.13 | 2.34 | 94.6% | 5.4% |
| jp-east-1-alice (Japan) | 5.58 | 0.94 | 6.52 | 85.6% | 14.4% |
| nl-west-1-alice (Netherlands) | 4.12 | 0.38 | 4.50 | 91.5% | 8.5% |
| sg-central-1-alice (Singapore) | 4.60 | 0.74 | 5.34 | 86.2% | 13.8% |
| us-central-1-alice (Iowa) | 6.75 | 2.84 | 9.59 | 70.4% | 29.6% |
| us-east-1-alice (N. Virginia) | 10.28 | 4.05 | 14.33 | 71.7% | 28.3% |
| us-east-2-alice (Virginia) | 1.41 | 0.21 | 1.63 | 87.0% | 13.0% |
| us-west-1-alice (California) | 4.51 | 1.16 | 5.67 | 79.6% | 20.4% |
| za-central-1-alice (South Africa) | 0.69 | 0.10 | 0.79 | 87.4% | 12.6% |
| GLOBAL | 58.55 | 12.60 | 71.15 | 82.3% | 17.7% |
- No POP has majority v6 over the 30-day window
- Highest v6 share: us-central-1 (29.6%) and us-east-1 (28.3%) — both US East/Central
- Lowest v6 share: in-west-1 (5.4%), au-east-1 (6.7%), ca-east-1 (6.6%)
- Highest absolute volume: us-east-1 (14.3 q/s), us-central-1 (9.6 q/s), de-central-1 (8.2 q/s)
- The 5-minute instantaneous rate showed ~32% v6 vs 18% monthly average, indicating IPv6 DNS traffic is growing
prod-infrastructure-control-planeandus-central-1-labshow zero query volume (control-plane/monitoring only, excluded)- Managed DNS (
datum-managed-auth-dns) accounts for all meaningful query volume;dns-operatorPowerDNS instances are near-zero - Each POP runs 2 replica pods; counters are summed across replicas per cluster