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    • DaddyGoD
      DaddyGo @kapvcop
      last edited by

      @kapvcop

      Hi,

      Do you mean, something like that?

      https://forum.netgate.com/topic/152132/grafana-dashboard-using-telegraf-with-additional-plugins
      https://github.com/VictorRobellini/pfSense-Dashboard

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      • K
        kapvcop
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        Thanks for the answer, it seems to me a very complete solution, but it does not say in the description that it does a monitoring of the firewall:

        What's Monitored
        Active Users
        Uptime
        Total CPU Load
        Disk Utilization
        Memory utilization
        CPU Utilization per core (Single Graph)
        Ram Utilization time graph
        Load Average
        Load Average Graph
        CPU and ACPI Temperature Sensors
        pfBlocker IP Stats
        pfBlocker DNS Stats
        Gateway Response time - dpinger
        List of interfaces with IP, MAC, Status and pfSesnse labels thanks to / u / trumee
        WAN Statistics - Traffic & Throughput (Identified by dashboard variable)
        LAN Statistics - Traffic & Throughput (Identified by dashboard variable)
        Unbound stats - Plugin and config included and working but not implemented

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        • DaddyGoD
          DaddyGo @kapvcop
          last edited by

          @kapvcop said in Activity Monitor in Firewall:

          but it does not say in the description that it does a monitoring of the firewall

          This is basic NGFW itself and its details, but you can add sensors to observe on your own.
          This is not fixed. โ˜บ

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            kapvcop @DaddyGo
            last edited by

            @DaddyGo Thanks, where can i find the complements?

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            • DaddyGoD
              DaddyGo @kapvcop
              last edited by

              @kapvcop

              All parameters (sensor) that Telegraf can send to the database (Influxdb) chances... are Grafana can display it.
              These will have to be set up on the Grafana surface with a lot of work and experimentation.

              There are plenty of Grafana fans, please look at their work and descriptions to set a parameter to monitor.

              https://community.grafana.com/
              https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/9806
              https://github.com/grafana/grafana
              https://www.reddit.com/r/grafana/

              and etc. ๐Ÿ˜‰

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                kapvcop @DaddyGo
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                @DaddyGo Thanks a lot!

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                • johnpozJ
                  johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                  last edited by

                  What exactly are you looking to "monitor" all of the stuff you listed can be "monitored" via the gui and either the firewall log, or the monitoring tab and picking the graph you want to look at.

                  I could understand if you had a central monitoring solution for all your other devices, and you wanted to add pfsense. But what exactly are you looking for that you can not find right in the gui for info on what the firewall is doing? And what its cpu and ram and temp and throughput is right there already in the gui..

                  But sure if you want it all in a fancy dashboard, that can be done with 3rd party tools.

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                    kapvcop @johnpoz
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                    @johnpoz thanks for yours words...
                    Hi, what's up? First, I don't understand them when they tell me these things, I'm betting my trust in Pfsense, which seems to me a reasonable product and yes, I hope for many things that I've already found ...

                    About monitoring, I wait more to take the best decisions at the moment, I am not interested in seeing how much memory is left or the CPU load, although it is true that it is important I would like to have a better view of the activity of the Firewall, for example, what is blocking live what is passing through it for example.
                    I need to have at all times a clear view of the traffic that is happening, refusing or trying to pass, for this a good tool would be good even if it is from third parties. That is what I hope the product can offer me, and if it is from third parties, well welcome, I insist I am betting on Pfsense, everything that it can do and the power it has seems very good to me, I just hope I can improve the monitoring of the Firewall.
                    Thank you very much and I hope you know how to understand me.

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                    • johnpozJ
                      johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                      last edited by johnpoz

                      @kapvcop said in Activity Monitor in Firewall:

                      what is blocking live what is passing through it

                      Look that the firewall log then. It doesn't log what it allows normally - but you can set.. Or look at the state table ;)

                      Send it to a syslog if you want it some other tool.

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                      • DaddyGoD
                        DaddyGo @kapvcop
                        last edited by

                        @kapvcop

                        @kapvcop "I need to have at all times a clear view of the traffic that is happening,"

                        you want more than a "sysadmin" task... (with logs) ???, !!!
                        @johnpoz, from an IT standpoint, give you a chance...๐Ÿ˜‰
                        everyone can and will do it.....read dry log files...

                        clearly define what you want to see.....
                        (I say only, because a firewall can do more than you think)

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