Telegraf vs OPNsense-Dashboard

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Telegraf		OPNsense-Dashboard
	Project
111	Mentions	7
13,753	Stars	387
1.0%	Growth	-
9.9	Activity	5.5
2 days ago	Latest Commit	5 months ago
Go	Language	PHP
MIT License	License	-

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.

Telegraf

Posts with mentions or reviews of Telegraf. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-27.

How I would automate monitoring DNS queries in basic Prometheus
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Mar 2024
Current network throughput from total byte value?
1 project | /r/grafana | 4 Aug 2023

The Telegraf (v1.27.3) Net Input Plugin only reports total numbers - i.e., total bytes received by an interface.
Filestat working but need help with output
1 project | /r/influxdb | 2 Aug 2023

I need some help with Filestat - https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/filestat
Telegraf Deployment Strategies with Docker Compose
2 projects | dev.to | 21 Jul 2023

Telegraf’s Secretstores Plugin implementation on GitHub
Right way to link containers on host vs custom network.
1 project | /r/docker | 13 Jun 2023

That's the thing, I do need network_mode: host on telegraf in order to get host network statistics. See here or here
Telegraf Inputs.SMART
1 project | /r/docker | 25 May 2023

After screwing around with it for a while, I was able to get inputs.smart working... but I'm not thrilled with the answer. According to this in order for you to get the SMART data inside a container you need to edit the sudoers file inside the container.
Learnings from integrating JMX based metrics from Java applications into time series databases
1 project | /r/devops | 27 Apr 2023

I’ve been using the Jolokia agent with telegraf to push JVM metrics into InfluxDB (among other things). I think it can be used with Prometheus too.
open source network monitoring tool
6 projects | /r/sysadmin | 9 Apr 2023

Do you mean Telegraf?
Help with reading modbus using telegraf
2 projects | /r/MODBUS | 7 Apr 2023

I have two devices; both are connected to a Raspberry Pi using a USB converter as Slave 1 and 2. I want to get some readings using Telegraf software https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/release-1.26/plugins/inputs/modbus (happy to try any other linux software), but I'm having trouble (I'm seriously confused to be honest) with byte_order, data_type, and input register addresses.
Telegraf processor plugin.
1 project | /r/influxdb | 1 Apr 2023

Yeah i think you can use the grok processor, docs found here: https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/parsers/grok

OPNsense-Dashboard

Posts with mentions or reviews of OPNsense-Dashboard. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-28.

Graylog Docker Unhealthy - no web ui
1 project | /r/graylog | 26 Jul 2023

I am fairly new at docker compose -- but I am trying to run the configuration file from https://github.com/bsmithio/OPNsense-Dashboard/blob/master/configure.md which relies on the docker-compose.yaml file. It installs things fine but I cant seem to access the graylog web ui.
How do y'all monitor internal traffic?
1 project | /r/OPNsenseFirewall | 25 Jun 2023
Monitoring
2 projects | /r/OPNsenseFirewall | 28 May 2023

And after I was almost done with all that, I realized that for all my dicking with caddy, I should have tried to monitor opnsense not just the reverse proxy... and as it turned out with quick google.. someone already did all the hard work - bsmithio / OPNsense-Dashboard
OPNsense Gravana Dashboard 👍
2 projects | /r/OPNsenseFirewall | 1 Sep 2022

I followed https://github.com/bsmithio/OPNsense-Dashboard/blob/master/configure.md from top to bottom, and the Dashboard is giving me "No Data" in every field.
My OPNsense dashboard on Grafana
4 projects | /r/OPNsenseFirewall | 19 Nov 2021

Here is the Telegraf config.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Telegraf and OPNsense-Dashboard you can also consider the following projects:

prometheus - The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

pfSense-Dashboard - A functional and useful dashboard for pfSense that utilizes influxdb, grafana and telegraf

VictoriaMetrics - VictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database

selfhosted-apps-docker - Guide by Example

Collectd - The system statistics collection daemon. Please send Pull Requests here!

tcollector - Data collection framework for OpenTSDB

TimescaleDB - An open-source time-series SQL database optimized for fast ingest and complex queries. Packaged as a PostgreSQL extension.

Graphite - A highly scalable real-time graphing system

thanos - Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project.

promscale - [DEPRECATED] Promscale is a unified metric and trace observability backend for Prometheus, Jaeger and OpenTelemetry built on PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB.

jmx_exporter - A process for exposing JMX Beans via HTTP for Prometheus consumption