# Enabling synapse-usage-exporter for Synapse usage statistics (optional)
[synapse-usage-exporter](https://github.com/loelkes/synapse-usage-exporter) allows you to export the usage statistics of a Synapse homeserver to this container service and for the collected metrics to later be scraped by Prometheus.
The playbook can install and configure [synapse-usage-exporter](https://github.com/loelkes/synapse-usage-exporter) for you.
It allows you to export the usage statistics of a Synapse homeserver to this container service and for the collected metrics to later be scraped by Prometheus.
Synapse does not include usage statistics in its Prometheus metrics. They can be reported to an HTTP `PUT` endpoint 5 minutes after startup and from then on at a fixed interval of once every three hours. This role integrates a simple [Flask](https://flask.palletsprojects.com) project that offers an HTTP `PUT` endpoint and holds the most recent received record available to be scraped by Prometheus.
@@ -11,6 +13,8 @@ Enabling this service will automatically:
- re-configure [Prometheus](./configuring-playbook-prometheus-grafana.md) (if Prometheus is enabled), to periodically scrape metrics from synapse-usage-exporter
- add a new [Grafana](./configuring-playbook-prometheus-grafana.md) dashboard (if Grafana is enabled) containing Synapse usage statistics
See the project's [documentation](https://github.com/loelkes/synapse-usage-exporter/blob/main/README.md) to learn what it does and why it might be useful to you.
## Adjusting DNS records (optional)
By default, this playbook installs synapse-usage-exporter on the `matrix.` subdomain, at the `/report-usage-stats/push` path (https://matrix.example.com/report-usage-stats/push). This makes it easy to install it, because it **doesn't require additional DNS records to be set up**. If that's okay, you can skip this section.
Suguru Hirahara
1年前