fortigate_exporter
Prometheus exporter for Fortigate firewalls (by bluecmd)
blackbox_exporter
Blackbox prober exporter (by prometheus)
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| fortigate_exporter | blackbox_exporter | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 47 | |
| 205 | 4,290 | |
| - | 2.5% | |
| 6.2 | 8.2 | |
| about 2 months ago | 8 days ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
fortigate_exporter
Posts with mentions or reviews of fortigate_exporter.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-02.
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Automation in Security Fabric
We just feed every data point of our FortiGates into our monitoring system with the prometheus exporter: https://github.com/bluecmd/fortigate_exporter
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30E memory steadily increases by 1% every ~40 minutes, but will immediately reduce when I log in to the web interface
A quick google search shows that this is a known issue with firmware versions below 6.4.x when using the fortigate_exporter plugin for Prometheus (which I am), which is a shame because the the latest firmware for the 30E is 6.2.10.
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Fortigate SNMP respoding "401 Unauthorized"
If you get 401 - seems you need to configure FortiGate like here https://github.com/bluecmd/fortigate_exporter and SNMP configuration is not needed. Otherwise you can check SNMP with snmpwalk.
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Fortigate Exporter for Prometheus
A few months back I created an exporter using the Fortigate API to enable people to monitor their Fortigate firewalls using Prometheus. You can find it here: https://github.com/bluecmd/fortigate_exporter.
blackbox_exporter
Posts with mentions or reviews of blackbox_exporter.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-27.
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How I would automate monitoring DNS queries in basic Prometheus
https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/blob/master/...
So you need 2 modules, one for each ip version. As for autamating setting these up, we deploy our Prometheus server with salt so we can use Jinja templating in all our Prometheus config files. That really cuts down on repeating boiler plate code.
This is also interesting for other reasons; in host downtime situations you can sometime see they will drop one type of traffic and not the other.
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Raspberry Pi Remote Server Monitoring over Wifi: Micropython code to monitor tcp port using usocket
A Pi is more than enough to run a full monitoring stack. Why reinvent the wheel?
- Service for monitoring your external IP adresses from a file.
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Uplink Monitor - Internal IP's to External Facing Status Page
You can also use the blackbox_exporter to probe various endpoints. But in reality, you don't need to do this most of the time since the up metric gets you what you want.
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Server down detector
Synthetic Monitoring is the Grafana Cloud implementation. It uses the blackbox_exporter
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how do I start to build an uptime monitoring system such as UptimeRobot or OnlineOrNot?
Prometheus blackbox_exporter. Free and open source.
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alert for self sign certs
Check something called blackboxexporter https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter
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Use prometheus+grafana for bug bounty / pentesting data collection
I have seen some people doing with these traditional relational databases, and I was wondering if it could be a good fit for prometheus+grafana as I have been messing around with prometheus BlackBox exporter (https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter) for web status monitoring.
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Prometheus Monitoring Checklist
You should look into the projects https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter and https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter
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Uptime monitoring (~1000 urls)
You could use prometheus as a monitoring tool, blackbox_exporter to "export" the urls to prometheus, alertmanager for notifications, and grafana for nice gui dashboards (and maybe also notifications).
What are some alternatives?
When comparing fortigate_exporter and blackbox_exporter you can also consider the following projects:
node_exporter - Exporter for machine metrics
cloudprober - [Moved to cloudprober/cloudprober] An active monitoring software to detect failures before your customers do.