8 Pi-Hole commands you need to know

Want to get even more from PiHole? Looking for other ways to get information from PiHole Stay tune and I will show you 8 commands you need to know

1. Chronometer a. pihole -c b. Console dashboard of realtime stats c. Will continue to run until you press Ctrl-C d. Append a -e to run console once and exit
2. Status a. Pihole status b. Gives you a quick status for pihole
3. Detailed status a. Pihole debug b. Gives you a low level report of what is going on with pi-hole
4. DNS logs a. pihole tail b. Watch the pi-hole dns query log in realtime c. Useful for catching problems or just general curiosity
5. Restart DNS a. pihole restartdns b. Quick way to restart the dns process without rebooting Pi-Hole
6. Reconfigure a. pihole reconfigure b. Re-run the configuration progress to start from scratch
7. Configuration backup a. pihole -a -t b. Creates a configuration backup c. File is placed in the directly you are running the cmd from d. File can be imported from Settings-Teleport page
8. Clearing the logs a. Pihole flush b. Clears the logs pi-hole creates c. Should only need to run if SD card is running low on space

https://docs.pi-hole.net/core/pihole-command/

⏱️TIMESTAMPS⏱️ 0:00 - Intro 0:47 - What we will be covering 1:06 - PiHole Chronometer 2:15 - PiHole Status 2:48 - PiHole Debug 3:23 - PiHole tail 4:26 - PiHole RestartDNS 4:52 - PiHole update 5:30 - PiHole reconfigure 6:28 - PiHole flush

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