snmp_exporter VS smokeping_prober

It is kind of described here:https://github.com/prometheus/snmp_exporter/issues/405

The SNMP exporter can do lookups. Take a look at this documentation.

wget https://github.com/prometheus/snmp_exporter/releases/download/v0.21.0/snmp_exporter-0.21.0.linux-amd64.tar.gz

You need to find the OSBs for the router, and add those to the explorer. Take a look at this doc: https://github.com/prometheus/snmp_exporter/blob/main/generator/README.md

You can fetch this metrics using the SNMP exporter https://github.com/prometheus/snmp_exporter

As a maintainer of the Prometheus SNMP exporter, and the defacto standard implementation of SNMP in Go, I can tell you exactly how convoluted SNMP is at a protocol and specification level.

Refer to https://github.com/prometheus/snmp_exporter and https://blog.paessler.com/how-to-enable-snmp-on-your-operating-system

For example, you can use unpoller to bring your unifi stuff into the same system as your SNMP data.

SNMP by itself is a rather crude protocol, with values being identified as OID (Object IDs). Those are numerical identifiers. A MIB-File contains the information on how to translate these OIDs into workable data. There is some information on how to feed these files to the exporter located here: https://github.com/prometheus/snmp_exporter/tree/main/generator

Source: I help maintain open source SNMP libraries and SNMP pollers.

Check out the smokeping_prober. It generates high resolution histogram data that you can use to compare different paths.

I wrote this smokeping tool to monitor. I also use unpoller

I wrote this tool to monitor my ISP connectivity.

I am thinking this might be the exporter to use: https://github.com/SuperQ/smokeping_prober At the bottom of that page it says

I wrote a smokeping_prober for Prometheus.

For some stuff, I do end-to-end probin with a tool I wrote.

Smokeping Prober

I wrote a "better smokeping" tool that produces much more detailed data than IP SLA.

I wrote my own variation of smokeping. It currently only does ICMP and UDP probing, but I've thought about adding things like TCP, HTTP, DNS, etc.