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Uptime Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
As I’ve been putting more and more time into my monitoring setup, I wanted to set up some simple uptime monitoring. Grafana Cloud does have Synthetic monitoring, but not only is this overkill for uptime monitoring, the way their free tier works I would only be able to monitor a single web application. I also wanted to get metrics on things like latency, SSL certificates, and domain renewals. Finally, I also run quite a bit of infrastructure behind my firewall that I wanted to monitor as well. After searching around for about an hour, I just decided to write something myself. …
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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. …