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node_exporter
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Prometheus Fundamentals (Lesson-01)
$ wget https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter/releases/download/v1.7.0/node_exporter-1.7.0.linux-amd64.tar.gz $ tar -xzvf node_exporter-1.7.0.linux-amd64.tar.gz
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List of your reverse proxied services
Node Exporter
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Best way to monitor disk space, RAM in remote servers and get alerts when full?
The Prometheus node_exporter can provide this information, doesn't require root. You could run it as a systemd user unit if you don't have root.
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Best Course/Learning Path for mastering Prometheus and Grafana
I personally find it best to learn through experimentation. Start with reading a bit about Prometheus and Grafana through their docs, and then familiarise yourself with setting up a local Prometheus + Grafana instance either locally or with docker using docker-compose, along with something to generate /metrics endpoint for Prometheus to scrape from such as a custom Prometheus exporter in Python or using Node Exporter.
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Linux Traffic Monitoring
Your best bet might be to fork node_exporter to get you more verbose socket stats: https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter/blob/master/collector/sockstat_linux.go
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Tool to monitor disk space
I use Grafana + Prometheus + Node Exporter.
- Is there a dashboard of sorts that can keep track of my linux-based computers and VMs to that I can easily see if any of them have updates or are running low on storage and et cetera?
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Would SNMP present less of a load than SSH to get interface metrics from older cisco 3K series switches?
Crazy idea, can't NX devices run Docker? I wonder if the node_exporter would work.
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Questions about Kubernetes
Kubernetes itself will not notify you, the way I've seen people do this, is to use something like kube-state-metrics or node_exporter, export that to Prometheus (or preferrably VictoriaMetrics because Prometheus is terrible IMO), and then setup alarms on that with alertmanager or equivalent, or just look at dashboards regularly with Grafana. Realistically I recommend only setting alerts on disk usage and application/database latency. CPU and memory utilization isn't a great metric to alert on a lot of the time.
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How to log system usage: RAM, CPU, over a long time to detect which component is slowing down?
You may setup node exporter and collect metrics with prometheus for example. Its not quite "simple" way, but still you may find it useful.
fortigate_exporter
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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.
What are some alternatives?
cadvisor - Analyzes resource usage and performance characteristics of running containers.
prometheus - The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.
process-exporter - Prometheus exporter that mines /proc to report on selected processes
blackbox_exporter - Blackbox prober exporter
Netdata - The open-source observability platform everyone needs
fortiosapi - Python library aimed to be used by configuration management system using Fortigate/Fortios devices (REST API)
ping_exporter - Prometheus exporter for ICMP echo requests using https://github.com/digineo/go-ping
fortiscan - A high performance FortiGate SSL-VPN vulnerability scanning and exploitation tool.
windows_exporter - Prometheus exporter for Windows machines
kube-state-metrics - Add-on agent to generate and expose cluster-level metrics.