I Monitored My Network with Grafana (2024)

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Welcome to my channel! In this video, I will walk you through the process of setting up Grafana and Prometheus to monitor network devices using SNMP-Exporter.

Here's what you'll learn in this video:

Introduction to Grafana and Prometheus: Understand the basics of these powerful monitoring tools and how they work together to collect and visualize data.

SNMP-Exporter Configuration: Learn how to configure the SNMP-Exporter to gather metrics from network devices using the SNMP protocol.

Using a Grafana Dashboard Template: Discover how easy it is to set up a monitoring dashboard using a pre-made template from the Grafana website. This demonstration shows that you don't need to know how to program to effectively use Prometheus and Grafana.

Whether you are a beginner looking to get started with network monitoring or an experienced user seeking to enhance your monitoring setup, this video has something for everyone.

Here is a link to my github to clone my repo:

Where to download grafana dashboards

Here is how to start
Remember that you need to install docker-compose first.

Then:
sudo chmod -R 777 volumes

How to install Node-Exporter

cd node_exporter-*.*-amd64
./node_exporter

Create a file

Paste the following:
[Unit]
Description=Node Exporter

[Service]
User=node_exporter
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/node_exporter
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
Description=Node Exporter

Save the file

Then add node-exporter as a service by doing the following:

sudo useradd -rs /bin/false node_exporter
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable node_exporter
sudo systemctl start node_exporter
sudo systemctl status node_exporter

[AntonioPersianoTech]

Let me know what you think about Grafana? Leave a comment here..

[thetraveltitan]

Great job explaining 🙌 Your insights were spot on, and I love the way you broke it all down. Keep up the awesome work!💪

[tomasz]

Very good video and practical, simple explanations

[vijaiy]

Great explanation! Thanks for explaining :)

[kali]

I got this video very useful amazing one thanks

[LesserpandaDE]

Giving permission to the container ... and the rest of the world.

[ethangender]

i have hear a lot of docker lately but its very very complicated to run in a home lab without vmware. i would like to see a docker manual that allow you to have multiple docker platform with independent ip address in a way top not mess up the actual physical card of the server.

[gngrivus]

Hey, commands in the video work but commands in the description do not and will confuse anyone not really good with linux(like me). WantedBy=default.target[Unit] gave me error untill i changed it to the videos one and also name of the service. Thank you for the video

[marvinfrost_]

Thank you for that tut, is this solution applicable using windows OS

[drewone]

How do I change the IPs in the Prometheus.yml file to match my ipconfig? When I run sudo vi prometheus.yml edit. It informs me there is a swap file lock detected.

[project_mini_hero]

Great video, do you happen to collect logs with Grafana Loki ? Been looking for videos that walks through a setup where it collects syslogs from embedded devices.

[Raed.moyasar]

Thanks for help full video, my node for snmp-exporter up from promthues side but ( NO DATA ) in grafana side can you advice please ?

[msafyanaali]

i want monitor Mikrotik router is it possible?

[techteamsandal]

can we monitor windows servers
thanks

[omarglewo]

promethues not open with me and port 9090 close

[tbzeek]

no offence but... too much google integrated adv that are impossible to skip

[markhoughton]

Great video. Question as I am just starting out here. Is the file snap-targets.yml being referenced anywhere? snap.yml is the main config file which has the community string. The Prometheus config has the target IP. So not sure how the snap-targets.yml fits in?

[zstamm]

Hey, I keep getting this error after running the script on a fresh Ubuntu 22.04 VM:
snmp-exporter | ts=2024-10-26T16:18:05.584Z caller=collector.go:367 level=info auth=public_v2 target=192.168.100.1:161 source_address= worker=0 module=if_mib msg="Error scraping target" err="scrape cancelled after 5.000064429s (possible timeout) getting target 192.168.100.1"
Any idea of what I can check?

[NA]

9:50 thank you for the video but this part didn’t still work for me it was saying “ no such file or directory