Mikrotik Monitoring in Grafana Cloud
Friday, June 28, 2024
Generally when I have monitored network equipment in the past I have relied on using SNMP. SNMP is not without it’s issues though. It’s not the most secure protocol, and it’s also not the fastest. Additionally I had a ton of issues getting Promethues to scrape the metrics from the Mikrotik equipment that I currently use. I ended up using a very complicated setup with a custom snmp-exporter with a configuration file I found somewhere on the internet. All that to say, I’ve found a much simpler way to get metrics from my Mikrotik devices. Enter the mktxp exporter.
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