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# Monitoring time sync with node_exporter
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## `ntp` collector
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This collector is intended for usage with local NTPD like [ntp.org](http://ntp.org/), [chrony](https://chrony.tuxfamily.org/comparison.html) or [OpenNTPD](http://www.openntpd.org/).
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Note, some chrony packages have `local stratum 10` configuration value making chrony a valid server when it it is unsynchronised. This configuration makes one of `node_ntp_sanity` heuristics unreliable.
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Note, OpenNTPD does not listen for SNTP queries by default, you should add `listen on 127.0.0.1` configuration line to use this collector with OpenNTPD.
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### `node_ntp_stratum`
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This metric shows [stratum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol#Clock_strata) of local NTPD.
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Stratum `16` means that clock are unsynchronised. See also aforementioned note about default local stratum in chrony.
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### `node_ntp_leap`
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Raw leap flag value. 0 – OK, 1 – add leap second at UTC midnight, 2 – delete leap second at UTC midnight, 3 – unsynchronised.
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OpenNTPD ignores leap seconds and never sets leap flag to `1` or `2`.
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### `node_ntp_rtt`
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RTT (round-trip time) from node_exporter collector to local NTPD. This value is
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used in sanity check as part of causality violation estimate.
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### `node_ntp_offset`
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[Clock offset](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol#Clock_synchronization_algorithm) between local time and NTPD time.
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ntp.org always sets NTPD time to local clock instead of relaying remote NTP
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time, so this offset is irrelevant for this NTPD.
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This value is used in sanity check as part of causality violation estimate.
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### `node_ntp_reference_timestamp_seconds`
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Reference Time. This field show time when the last adjustment was made, but
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implementation details vary from "**local** wall-clock time" to "Reference Time
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field in incoming SNTP packet".
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`time() - node_ntp_reference_timestamp_seconds` and
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`node_time - node_ntp_reference_timestamp_seconds` represent some estimate of
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"freshness" of synchronization.
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### `node_ntp_root_delay` and `node_ntp_root_dispersion`
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These values are used to calculate synchronization distance that is limited by
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`collector.ntp.max-distance`.
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ntp.org adds known local offset to announced root dispersion and linearly
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increases dispersion in case of NTP connectivity problems, OpenNTPD does not
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account dispersion at all and always reports `0`.
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### `node_ntp_sanity`
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Aggregate NTPD health including stratum, leap flag, sane freshness, root
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distance being less than `collector.ntp.max-distance` and causality violation
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being less than `collector.ntp.local-offset-tolerance`.
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Causality violation is lower bound estimate of clock error done using SNTP,
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it's calculated as positive portion of `abs(node_ntp_offset) - node_ntp_rtt / 2`.
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## `timex` collector
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This collector exports state of kernel time synchronization flag that should be
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maintained by time-keeping daemon and is eventually raised by Linux kernel if
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time-keeping daemon does not update it regularly.
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Unfortunately some daemons do not handle this flag properly, e.g. chrony-1.30
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from Debian/jessie clears `STA_UNSYNC` flag during daemon initialisation and
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does not indicate clock synchronization status using this flag. Modern chrony
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versions should work better. All chrony versions require `rtcsync` option to
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maintain this flag. OpenNTPD does not touch this flag at all till
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OpenNTPD-5.9p1.
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On the other hand combination of `sync_status` and `offset` exported by `timex`
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module is the way to monitor if systemd-timesyncd does its job.
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