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

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

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

      Should that be ok so?

      #!/bin/sh
      /usr/local/sbin/unbound-control -c /var/unbound/unbound.conf $* | grep -vE 'thread[0-9]+'
      unbound-control -c /var/unbound/unbound.conf stats_noreset | grep total.num
      

      When I tried running that command that was originally in there (your top line) it didn't work.

      Just it should be:

      #!/bin/sh
      unbound-control -c /var/unbound/unbound.conf stats_noreset | grep total.num
      

      ?

      That is what I am running, correct, and it didn't affect any other metrics.

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

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

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

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

        Should that be ok so?

        #!/bin/sh
        /usr/local/sbin/unbound-control -c /var/unbound/unbound.conf $* | grep -vE 'thread[0-9]+'
        unbound-control -c /var/unbound/unbound.conf stats_noreset | grep total.num
        

        When I tried running that command that was originally in there (your top line) it didn't work.

        Just it should be:

        #!/bin/sh
        unbound-control -c /var/unbound/unbound.conf stats_noreset | grep total.num
        

        ?

        That is what I am running, correct, and it didn't affect any other metrics.

        I don't receive any data to grafana, what can be wrong?

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          bigjohns97 @erbalo
          last edited by bigjohns97

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

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

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

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

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

          Should that be ok so?

          #!/bin/sh
          /usr/local/sbin/unbound-control -c /var/unbound/unbound.conf $* | grep -vE 'thread[0-9]+'
          unbound-control -c /var/unbound/unbound.conf stats_noreset | grep total.num
          

          When I tried running that command that was originally in there (your top line) it didn't work.

          Just it should be:

          #!/bin/sh
          unbound-control -c /var/unbound/unbound.conf stats_noreset | grep total.num
          

          ?

          That is what I am running, correct, and it didn't affect any other metrics.

          I don't receive any data to grafana, what can be wrong?

          Make sure the data source and table is the same on your side as what I posted.

          @erbalo copy the JSON from above again I replaced some of my entries with variables so be more plug and play.

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            von Papst @bigjohns97
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            @bigjohns97 got it running. But still missing CPU, memory and system load data. What am I missing?

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              bigjohns97 @von Papst
              last edited by

              @von-papst This is just a single panel, add it to the dashboard being developed in this thread.

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                jpcapone @bigjohns97
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                  jpcapone
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                  I think I am late to the party but I am trying to figure some things out. I am running pfsense in a vm on esxi 6.7. I was able to figure out enough to get most of the panels working but I think the scripts arent working. I am not super familiar with FreeBSD so I am finding it difficult to determine how to test run the scripts so that I can remediate. I am pretty sure the scripts arent running because all of the panels aren't populated with data and when I do a show measurements on the DB I get only the entries listed below. Any advice would be appreciated.
                  cpu
                  disk
                  diskio
                  mem
                  net
                  pf
                  processes
                  swap
                  system

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                    bigjohns97 @jpcapone
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                    @jpcapone This is the best way to troubleshoot the plugins

                    Taken from https://github.com/VictorRobellini/pfSense-Dashboard

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                      jpcapone @bigjohns97
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                        jpcapone @bigjohns97
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                        @bigjohns97
                        Thanks for that. I was able to figure out the issues with the plugins. Now I am just left with what I have pasted below. Can you please advise?

                        2021-02-23T19:01:58Z I! Loaded inputs: cpu disk diskio exec kernel logparser (2x) mem net pf processes swap system
                        2021-02-23T19:01:58Z I! Loaded aggregators:
                        2021-02-23T19:01:58Z I! Loaded processors:
                        2021-02-23T19:01:58Z I! Loaded outputs: influxdb
                        2021-02-23T19:01:58Z I! Tags enabled: host=xxxxpfSense.xxxxolutions.co
                        2021-02-23T19:01:58Z I! [agent] Config: Interval:10s, Quiet:false, Hostname:"xxxxpfSense.xxxxolutions.co", Flush Interval:10s
                        2021-02-23T19:01:58Z D! [agent] Initializing plugins
                        2021-02-23T19:01:58Z W! [inputs.logparser] The logparser plugin is deprecated; please use the 'tail' input with the 'grok' data_format
                        2021-02-23T19:01:58Z W! [inputs.logparser] The logparser plugin is deprecated; please use the 'tail' input with the 'grok' data_format
                        2021-02-23T19:01:58Z D! [agent] Connecting outputs
                        2021-02-23T19:01:58Z D! [agent] Attempting connection to [outputs.influxdb]
                        2021-02-23T19:01:58Z D! [agent] Successfully connected to outputs.influxdb
                        2021-02-23T19:01:58Z D! [agent] Starting service inputs
                        2021-02-23T19:01:58Z E! [inputs.logparser] Error in plugin: open /var/log/pfblockerng/dnsbl.log: no such file or directory
                        2021-02-23T19:01:58Z E! [inputs.logparser] Error in plugin: open /var/log/pfblockerng/ip_block.log: no such file or directory
                        2021-02-23T19:02:00Z E! [inputs.logparser] Error in plugin: open /var/log/pfblockerng/dnsbl.log: no such file or directory
                        2021-02-23T19:02:00Z E! [inputs.logparser] Error in plugin: open /var/log/pfblockerng/ip_block.log: no such file or directory

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

                          @bigjohns97
                          Thanks for that. I was able to figure out the issues with the plugins. Now I am just left with what I have pasted below. Can you please advise?

                          2021-02-23T19:01:58Z I! Loaded inputs: cpu disk diskio exec kernel logparser (2x) mem net pf processes swap system
                          2021-02-23T19:01:58Z I! Loaded aggregators:
                          2021-02-23T19:01:58Z I! Loaded processors:
                          2021-02-23T19:01:58Z I! Loaded outputs: influxdb
                          2021-02-23T19:01:58Z I! Tags enabled: host=xxxxpfSense.xxxxolutions.co
                          2021-02-23T19:01:58Z I! [agent] Config: Interval:10s, Quiet:false, Hostname:"xxxxpfSense.xxxxolutions.co", Flush Interval:10s
                          2021-02-23T19:01:58Z D! [agent] Initializing plugins
                          2021-02-23T19:01:58Z W! [inputs.logparser] The logparser plugin is deprecated; please use the 'tail' input with the 'grok' data_format
                          2021-02-23T19:01:58Z W! [inputs.logparser] The logparser plugin is deprecated; please use the 'tail' input with the 'grok' data_format
                          2021-02-23T19:01:58Z D! [agent] Connecting outputs
                          2021-02-23T19:01:58Z D! [agent] Attempting connection to [outputs.influxdb]
                          2021-02-23T19:01:58Z D! [agent] Successfully connected to outputs.influxdb
                          2021-02-23T19:01:58Z D! [agent] Starting service inputs
                          2021-02-23T19:01:58Z E! [inputs.logparser] Error in plugin: open /var/log/pfblockerng/dnsbl.log: no such file or directory
                          2021-02-23T19:01:58Z E! [inputs.logparser] Error in plugin: open /var/log/pfblockerng/ip_block.log: no such file or directory
                          2021-02-23T19:02:00Z E! [inputs.logparser] Error in plugin: open /var/log/pfblockerng/dnsbl.log: no such file or directory
                          2021-02-23T19:02:00Z E! [inputs.logparser] Error in plugin: open /var/log/pfblockerng/ip_block.log: no such file or directory

                          Looks like you aren't using pfblockerng is that the case?

                          Are you now getting data on the influxdb side and in turn on your dashboard?

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                            jpcapone @bigjohns97
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                            @bigjohns97
                            yup, I am getting data but I am still not seeing the same measurements in my DB that you see in the in the troubleshooting section. Also, I had to turn on pfblockerng and now but I am still not getting any data from it in grafana. Any suggestions?
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                              jpcapone @bigjohns97
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                              @bigjohns97 I think I got it. No data was being generated because I wasn't surfing after I set up pfblockerng. I am very new to this as you can tell. Thanks for your help!!!!

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                                VictorRobellini
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                                I've made some updates to the dashboard. I would love feedback.

                                https://github.com/VictorRobellini/pfSense-Dashboard/commit/520eea4f49b5107cb79e887ec94951c015d52a6e

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

                                  I've made some updates to the dashboard. I would love feedback.

                                  https://github.com/VictorRobellini/pfSense-Dashboard/commit/520eea4f49b5107cb79e887ec94951c015d52a6e

                                  You didn't like my unbound cache hit panel above?

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                                    VictorRobellini
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                                    More updates and bugfixes

                                    telegraf config update required! Please read this in the Readme or things won't work

                                    I updated the parser for the pfBlocker logs. It now uses the non-deprecated tails plugin and also fixes parsing errors that prevented data from being inserted into the influxdb.

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

                                      The extra panels are great, but it's not something I use and since I don't know how to properly partition and rollup influx data, I haven't implemented the unbound data. If influx had an automatic rollup like RRD, I would absolutely include it. I'm just being mindful of database growth.

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                                        VictorRobellini @bigjohns97
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                                        @bigjohns97

                                        I went back to poke around the unbound plugin, it seems to be working fine without the wrapper. I read through the plugin docs to find a use case for collecting the data and showing metrics, but there's just soo much data and I can't think of a use that would justify the additional collection and overhead. Here's your panel in template format and additional telegraf config:

                                        Telegraf config

                                        [[inputs.unbound]]
                                            server = "127.0.0.1:953"
                                            binary = "/usr/local/sbin/unbound-control"
                                            config_file = "/var/unbound/unbound.conf"
                                            timeout = "1s"
                                            thread_as_tag = true
                                        

                                        Grafana 7 graph

                                        {
                                          "aliasColors": {
                                            "Hits": "#629e51",
                                            "Misses": "#bf1b00"
                                          },
                                          "breakPoint": "50%",
                                          "cacheTimeout": null,
                                          "combine": {
                                            "label": "Others",
                                            "threshold": 0
                                          },
                                          "decimals": null,
                                          "fieldConfig": {
                                            "defaults": {
                                              "custom": {}
                                            },
                                            "overrides": []
                                          },
                                          "fontSize": "100%",
                                          "format": "short",
                                          "gridPos": {
                                            "h": 5,
                                            "w": 5,
                                            "x": 0,
                                            "y": 1
                                          },
                                          "hideTimeOverride": false,
                                          "id": 23763571993,
                                          "interval": null,
                                          "legend": {
                                            "header": "",
                                            "percentage": true,
                                            "percentageDecimals": 0,
                                            "show": true,
                                            "sortDesc": true,
                                            "values": false
                                          },
                                          "legendType": "On graph",
                                          "links": [],
                                          "maxDataPoints": 3,
                                          "nullPointMode": "connected",
                                          "pieType": "donut",
                                          "pluginVersion": "6.3.3",
                                          "strokeWidth": "2",
                                          "targets": [
                                            {
                                              "alias": "Hits",
                                              "groupBy": [],
                                              "measurement": "unbound",
                                              "orderByTime": "ASC",
                                              "policy": "default",
                                              "refId": "A",
                                              "resultFormat": "time_series",
                                              "select": [
                                                [
                                                  {
                                                    "params": [
                                                      "total_num_cachehits"
                                                    ],
                                                    "type": "field"
                                                  }
                                                ]
                                              ],
                                              "tags": [
                                                {
                                                  "key": "host",
                                                  "operator": "=~",
                                                  "value": "/^$Host$/"
                                                }
                                              ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                              "alias": "Misses",
                                              "groupBy": [],
                                              "measurement": "unbound",
                                              "orderByTime": "ASC",
                                              "policy": "default",
                                              "refId": "B",
                                              "resultFormat": "time_series",
                                              "select": [
                                                [
                                                  {
                                                    "params": [
                                                      "total_num_cachemiss"
                                                    ],
                                                    "type": "field"
                                                  }
                                                ]
                                              ],
                                              "tags": [
                                                {
                                                  "key": "host",
                                                  "operator": "=~",
                                                  "value": "/^$Host$/"
                                                }
                                              ]
                                            }
                                          ],
                                          "thresholds": [],
                                          "timeFrom": null,
                                          "timeShift": null,
                                          "title": "DNS Cache Hit/Miss Ratio",
                                          "type": "grafana-piechart-panel",
                                          "valueName": "current",
                                          "datasource": null
                                        }
                                        
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                                          VictorRobellini @bigjohns97
                                          last edited by VictorRobellini

                                          @bigjohns97

                                          Here's a plugin - telegraf_unbound_lite.sh - that pulls in just the metrics associated with your graph. It uses the same structure as the unbound plugin but the names use "." rather than "_", other than that, it's a drop-in replacement.

                                          Just add it to the telegraf config under the telegraf_temperature.sh entry.

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