doveadm-service-status - Man Page
Show information about dovecot services
Synopsis
doveadm [Global Options] service status [service [...]]
Description
doveadm service status produces a table with a line for each service, containing the following details:
- name
- the name of the service 
- process_count
- the number of processes actually running for the service 
- process_avail
- the number of additional processes that can be spawned for the service 
- process_limit
- the maximum number of processes that can be active for the service 
- client_limit
- the maximum number of connections that the service will handle simultaneously 
- throttle_secs
- seconds to wait before launching another process when processes are dying unexpectedly early for the service 
- exit_failure_last
- timestamp when the last process was terminated abnormally for the service 
- exit_failures_in_sec
- number of abnormally terminated processes for the service in the last second 
- last_drop_warning
- timestamp when the last time a "dropping client connections" warning was logged 
- listen_pending
- if the master process is queuing connections that need to be dispatched 
- listening
- if service is listening 
- doveadm_stop
- if the service has been stopped by doveadm(1) 
- process_total
- the total number of processes forked for the service since the service start. 
Global Options
Global doveadm(1)
- -D
- Enables verbosity and debug messages. 
- -O
- Do not read any config file, just use defaults. The dovecot_storage_version setting defaults to the latest version, but can be overridden with 
- -k
- Preserve entire environment for doveadm, not just import_environment setting. 
- -v
- Enables verbosity, including progress counter. 
- -i instance-name
- If using multiple Dovecot instances, choose the config file based on this instance name. - See instance_name setting for more information. 
- -c config-file
- Read configuration from the given config-file. By default it first reads config socket, and then falls back to /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf. You can also point this to config socket of some instance running compatible version. 
- -o setting=value
- Overrides the configuration setting from /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf and from the userdb with the given value. In order to override multiple settings, the -o option may be specified multiple times. 
- -f formatter
- Specifies the formatter for formatting the output. Supported formatters are: - flow
- prints each line with key=value pairs. 
 
- pager
- prints each key: value pair on its own line and separates records with form feed character (^L). 
- tab
- prints a table header followed by tab separated value lines. 
- table
- prints a table header followed by adjusted value lines. 
Arguments
service (optional)
Filters the list according to the specified service or services. By default, all dovecot services are listed.
Examples
doveadm service status
name: fs-auth process_count: 0 process_avail: 0 process_limit: 1 client_limit: 1000 throttle_secs: 0 exit_failure_last: 0 exit_failures_in_sec: 0 last_drop_warning: 0 listen_pending: n listening: y doveadm_stop: n process_total: 0 name: fs-server
Reporting Bugs
Report bugs, including doveconf -n output, to the Dovecot Mailing List ⟨dovecot@dovecot.org⟩. Information about reporting bugs is available at: https://dovecot.org/bugreport.html