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      Crimson11 @VictorRobellini
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      @VictorRobellini Thank you very much for the fast reply. I agree that it could be relative to a bad dashboard import.

      For the uptime panel I was able to import it from another dashboard and compared to yours and it was the same but the imported one was working.

      I was able to fix interface summary by importing directly from the Grafana website and copy/paste the panel.

      Active users was not working either on the other dashboard I imported.

      These gives data but I did not had time to format it.
      select * from system limit 5
      select * from net limit 5

      Thank you again.

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        JohnKap @_rp
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        @romprod said in Grafana Dashboard using Telegraf with additional plugins:

        @bigjohns97 said in Grafana Dashboard using Telegraf with additional plugins:

        Any idea why I would be getting the following when trying the telegraf_gateways.py option?

        [inputs.exec] Error in plugin: exec: fork/exec /usr/local/bin/telegraf_gateways.py: no such file or directory for command '/usr/local/bin/telegraf_gateways.py'

        I'm having the same issues, what did you do to fix this?

        I am using the fastjack version from here https://gist.github.com/fastjack/a0feb792a9655da7aa3e2a7a1d9f812f

        after copying the file to this folder, did you chmod +x it?

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          pfsense99
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          For the unbound - on telegrah - looks like does not work with the latest version of pfsense and telegrah

          It used to work..

          In telegraf config..

          [[inputs.unbound]]
          server = "127.0.0.1:953"
          binary = "/usr/local/bin/telegraf_unbound.sh"

          Command to check:

          /usr/local/bin/telegraf -config=/usr/local/etc/telegraf.conf --test --input-filter unbound

          Output:
          2020-11-18T00:31:41Z I! Starting Telegraf 1.13.4
          2020-11-18T00:31:45Z E! [inputs.unbound] Error in plugin: error gathering metrics: error running unbound-control: Command timed out. (/usr/local/bin/telegraf_unbound.sh [-s 127.0.0.1@953 stats_noreset])
          2020-11-18T00:31:45Z E! [telegraf] Error running agent: One or more input plugins had an error

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            bigjohns97
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            Recently tried out the new version of PfBlockerNG 3.0.0_1 and was looking to test the new python integration with unbound that produces the client ip in the logs when using null blocking. (requires pfsense 2.5.x and latest version of unbound)

            Wanted to confirm that not only does it work but everything still shows up in this grafana dashboard.

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              iso667 @erbalo
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              @erbalo I am facing this similar issue, when I see the telegraf log I have this message everywhere... Did you find any solution?

              For example:

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                Josef
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                This dashboard is absolutely fantastic! it works very well.
                It looks like it would have taken a lot of hard work, time and effort.
                Thanks for doing this!

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                  Szymon
                  last edited by Szymon

                  Any idea how to install Telegraf on SG-3100? pFsense version 2.4.5-RELEASE-p1 (arm).

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                    AB5G
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                    @VictorRobellini @erbalo

                    To calculate the monthly WAN download/upload, use the following query format

                    SELECT non_negative_difference(last("bytes_recv")) FROM "net" WHERE ("host" =~ /^$Host$/ AND "interface" =~ /^$WAN$/) AND $timeFilter GROUP BY time($__interval) fill(null)

                    Set Query Options / Relative Time to - 'now/M'. Leave Everything else as is in Query Options.

                    For Visualization use 'Stat'. Then under 'Display' select Calculations > Total

                    Then Goto Field from the TAB above / Units > bytes(SI)

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                      erbalo @AB5G
                      last edited by

                      @ab5g said in Grafana Dashboard using Telegraf with additional plugins:

                      @VictorRobellini @erbalo

                      To calculate the monthly WAN download/upload, use the following query format

                      SELECT non_negative_difference(last("bytes_recv")) FROM "net" WHERE ("host" =~ /^$Host$/ AND "interface" =~ /^$WAN$/) AND $timeFilter GROUP BY time($__interval) fill(null)

                      Set Query Options / Relative Time to - 'now/M'. Leave Everything else as is in Query Options.

                      For Visualization use 'Stat'. Then under 'Display' select Calculations > Total

                      Then Goto Field from the TAB above / Units > bytes(SI)

                      Bamm! thank you, this works now for me!!! Can someone maybe upload a fully working dashboard so we can use import in grafana? With a corected Mb/s etc..

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                        AB5G @erbalo
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                        @erbalo

                        Getting Mbps on the graph is easy.

                        Select the WAN Panel > Edit > Panel Settings > Axis / Left Y - Change this to bits/sec
                        Also change the query to add *8

                        So your query will look like this

                        SELECT derivative(mean("bytes_recv"), 1s) *8 FROM "net" WHERE ("host" =~ /^$Host$/ AND "interface" =~ /^$WAN$/) AND $timeFilter GROUP BY time($__interval) fill(null)

                        Do the same for the LAN Panel (the first one). Then click 'LAN Interfaces' (the master container for all LAN panels - see pic) . Click Settings > Repeat for Datasouce and this Mbps setting applies to all LAN panels.

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                          erbalo @AB5G
                          last edited by

                          @ab5g said in Grafana Dashboard using Telegraf with additional plugins:

                          @erbalo

                          Getting Mbps on the graph is easy.

                          Select the WAN Panel > Edit > Panel Settings > Axis / Left Y - Change this to bits/sec
                          Also change the query to add *8

                          So your query will look like this

                          SELECT derivative(mean("bytes_recv"), 1s) *8 FROM "net" WHERE ("host" =~ /^$Host$/ AND "interface" =~ /^$WAN$/) AND $timeFilter GROUP BY time($__interval) fill(null)

                          Do the same for the LAN Panel (the first one). Then click 'LAN Interfaces' (the master container for all LAN panels - see pic) . Click Settings > Repeat for Datasouce and this Mbps setting applies to all LAN panels.

                          Screenshot 2021-01-05 at 3.14.08 PM.png

                          Thank you, for th WAN it is now correct just i am seeing there Mb/s - Megabit per second.
                          But for the LAN i need to see MB/s = Megabyte per second. I mean i need to see the exact value such as when you copy a file from your NAS, you see there the rate MB/s.

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                            masterhead
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                              bigjohns97
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                              I noticed recently that the systems row is no longer tracking the time range that is selected up at the top right.

                              Is this something that should be defined in the query or did something break with an upgrade somewhere along the way?

                              Can someone else confirm if they are able to see changes in the systems row statistics whenever the change the time frame in the upper right hand corner of the dashboard?

                              I did go ahead and pull down the latest json from github just to be sure that wasn't the problem.

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                                AB5G @bigjohns97
                                last edited by

                                @bigjohns97 Seems to be working for me.

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                                  bigjohns97 @AB5G
                                  last edited by

                                  @ab5g I did recently upgrade pretty much everything (pfsense 12, pfblockerng 3.007 grafana. Etc)

                                  Just a heads up. I haven't had a chance to dig into the data to see if the dates aren't being kept or what really has changed.

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                                    AB5G @bigjohns97
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                                    @bigjohns97 I am on 11.3 with pfBlockerng at 3.0.0_7. If you recently updated to 12, make sure that the Telegraf additional configs are in place and your scripts are still in usr/local/bin with the correct permissions.

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                                      bigjohns97 @AB5G
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                                      @ab5g yep that is all confirmed working and I was sure it was working after the upgrade to 12.x and 3.x so I am leaning towards new version of grafana or possibly a combination of the two.

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                                        bigjohns97 @bigjohns97
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                                        Well I kinda found out what happened, I believe something went haywire during one of the many upgrades and ended up putting some log entries without time or dates into my dnsbl.log which in turn was put into my influxdb.

                                        I ended up having to delete the dnsbl.log and let pfblockerng automatically create it and then I deleted the database from within influx and everything was working again.

                                        There was nothing wrong with grafana.

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                                          pfsencue
                                          last edited by

                                          I'm seeing multiple widgets for each of my WAN items:

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                                          I also had to manually add the additional code via the command line to the telelgraf.conf file manually as when I add it via the browser it adds the ^M characters. I'm on a Mac so that shouldn't happen, anyone else see this?

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                                            VictorRobellini @AB5G
                                            last edited by VictorRobellini

                                            @ab5g This is a great idea! I'm adding it to my next commit.

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                                            Thanks

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