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Harnessing the Power of Prometheus and Netbox: Mastering HTTP Service Discovery for Streamlined Monitoring

Prometheus and Netbox, two powerful tools that, when combined, can supercharge your monitoring capabilities and streamline your operations. In this blog post, we'll explore the seamless integration of Prometheus with Netbox using HTTP service discovery, which enables you to effortlessly discover and manage your network devices. Requirements: Netbox version 3.

Monitoring WireGuard with Prometheus

Monitoring WireGuard with Prometheus

GitHub user MindFlavor created an exporter for WireGuard that collects metrics from the wg show all dump command. Install WireGuard Exporter MindFlavor/prometheus_wireguard_exporterA Prometheus exporter for WireGuard, written in Rust. - MindFlavor/prometheus_wireguard_exporterGitHubMindFlavor You can either compile the exporter from source or use the cargo command

Monitoring EdgeRouter with Node Exporter

Monitoring EdgeRouter with Node Exporter

I've been monitoring my EdgeRouter 4 with SNMP Exporter [https://github.com/prometheus/snmp_exporter] for a while now. It works, but its a pain to manage the MIBs and having a separate service to maintain is annoying. So lets try running node exporter on the EdgeRouter. SSH into the

Monitoring Pi-hole with Prometheus

Monitoring Pi-hole with Prometheus

Export Pi-hole metrics into prometheus

NGINX Monitoring with Prometheus

NGINX Monitoring with Prometheus

Monitor basic metrics from NGINX with Prometheus and Grafana

Monitoring DigitalOcean Droplets with Prometheus

Monitoring DigitalOcean Droplets with Prometheus

* Create a Private Network * Setup Prometheus * Install Node Exporter Create a Private Network Segmenting traffic gives you more flexibility and security. In most deployments users do not want their monitoring traffic flowing over public facing interfaces. Full docs on how to setup private networking below. You will need to do

Prometheus from the ground up

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Prometheus from the ground up

Prometheus installation and setup

Grafana from the Ground Up

Grafana from the Ground Up

Grafana installation and setup

Grafana

> Grafana allows you to query, visualize, alert on and understand your metrics no matter where they are stored. Create, explore, and share dashboards with your team and foster a data driven culture. - grafana.com Grafana is the de facto standard when it comes to visualizing time series data. What

Node Exporter

Node exporter is a small process that collects OS level metics and presents them over HTTP