# Reading statistics from NetoDNS API

## About the NetoDNS API

The NetoDNS API is a very simple API endpoint that provides client-side statistics from a running NetoDNS instance. By default, the API listens on TCP port 8080. The API is unauthenticated and read-only. For a production deployment, access to the API port on NetoDNS should be restricted by network access, or the API should be disabled if it is not needed.

Per-device statistics are calculated pre-filter and pre-downsample.

### Configuring the NetoDNS API

#### environment variable configuration settings

```
NETO_API__ENABLED=true  
NETO_API__PORT=8080  
```

For more details on how to modify the configuration of NetoDNS, see see: [Install NetoDNS (container)](/netodns/install-netodns-container.md) or [Install NetoDNS (Linux package)](/netodns/install-netodns-linux-package.md)

##

### Reading statistics with the NetoDNS API

Read statistics from port 8080 on the NetoDNS host using this endpoint: `/api/v1/stats/rate`

On your local system: `http://localhost:8080/api/v1/stats/rate`

If you cannot access this port when NetoDNS is running, ensure you do not have a local firewall in place that is blocking the port, you have mapped the container port 8080 to a local port if you are using the NetoDNS container, and you have not disabled or changed the port in the NetoDNS configuration.

#### Using `curl` to read statistics from NetoDNS running on localhost

`curl localhost:8080/api/v1/stats/rate`


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