Properly Prometheus (with alertmanager & exporters) + Grafana installation on CE DEV version

Sergei_Shablovsky

Dear pfSense Gurus!

Which version of Prometheus better to install:

2.30.0 from official FreeBSD repo (Prometheus, Grafana);
OR
2.31.1 from official Prometheus web;

?

And also in FreeBSD repo I cannot see the alertmanager exist. That’s not good, because the advantages of Prometheus more describe as “Monitoring system with advanced alerting” (drop down the words RRD based, with exporters, data-visualization,...).

And which way would be the better to installing both of Prometheus & Grafana? (If You are familiar with CLI installation exactly in pfSense, I would be thankful for examples.)

Thank You for all Your time and help!

P.S.

I know well and read a lot about all risks when installing 3-rd party packages not from pfSense repo. BTW, I more than sure the install base and huge community control minimizing ability that this both software going to release version with a lot of bugs. The Prometheus recently going to be included in some distributives on nix systems. This meal some kind of “Quality Mark”.
I really do not understand the logic why making and including node_exporter to pfSense package list AND in the same time NOT INCLUDING Prometheus to package list of pfSense. But - this is another story...
Installing the Grafana on the same node where Prometheus are working is optionally because better to keep data (SNMP, logs, metrics) analytics & visualization tools on separate node to not making extra pressure on pfSense node's CPU/mem.
But if You have an extra hoarse power and not need to care about another +1 computer in own home, - why not? ;)
For those who interested in pfSense node monitoring by modern tools (or just shift out from outdated Nagios, Munin, SmokePing,...) but like the method how SmokePing make measures, there are solutions, how to transport SmokePing metrics -> Prometheus and -> view then in Grafana. Enjoy!

Sergei_Shablovsky

Anyone interested to monitoring pfSense!? ;)

stephenw10

Not on pfSense directly.

There are quite a few tutorials on how to do exactly this by exporting the data to another host. And that's the correct way to do it IMO.

Steve

Sergei_Shablovsky

@stephenw10 said in Properly Prometheus (with alertmanager & exporters) + Grafana installation on CE DEV version:

Not on pfSense directly.

Why? Exactly pfSense have exporter for Prometheus. So the question about version are still actual.

There are quite a few tutorials on how to do exactly this by exporting the data to another host. And that's the correct way to do it IMO.

Of course, I read it. But asking about tho new version are only on official Prometheus web, but quite old version are in FreeBSD repo.