I don't actually recommend LIbreNMS. It's too slow and is too outdated in terms of monitoring capability to be worth implementing. Yes, it's easier to setup for _just_ SNMP monitoring. But it fails at everything else. Scalability, flexibility, performance, etc.
Prometheus is a universal platform for monitoring everything from network to server to application. Yes, it's more up-front work. But it's flexible enough to provide monitoring for everything in your organization. On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 8:27 PM Colton Conor <[email protected]> wrote: > Ben, > > Thanks for the information. I was really hoping you were going to say > check out project x that has this all done for you :(. > > It sounds like today Promethus would just be too much work for our use > case. With that being said, I see some NMS platforms like LibreNMS has a > promethus exporter, which they claim is alpha at best. What are > the thoughts about using something like this as a stepping stone to > eventually getting to Promethus? > > Which monitoring platforms, other than LibreNMS, do you like or recommend? > Do any of them have advanced functionality related to Promethus or time > series databases? > > On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 4:43 PM Ben Kochie <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yes, you'll have to create the customizations yourself. There's currently >> no scanning/auto-configure for Prometheus SNMP users out there. It's a >> missing market opportunity. >> >> I even suggested this to the LibreNMS people, as they have that part down >> solid, but their metrics collection and backend is at least a decade out of >> style (PHP polling + RRA). >> >> The up-side is that Prometheus is easily more scaleable than LibreNMS. >> When I talked to them originally, I think we were still in the Prometheus >> 1.x days and estimated we were doing 5x better back then. Now it's probably >> 50x better. >> >> On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 11:10 PM Colton Conor <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> I am just wondering how hard to would be to replace something like >>> LibreNMS or PRTG with Prometheus? With Libre, we just install, set the SNMP >>> community sting, scan our network, and all devices get mapped, linked, and >>> monitored. I imagine Prometheus would be much more involved? Sounds like we >>> would have to edit .yml files for each device / vendor just to get the SNMP >>> metrics into the database. Then, we must create custom Grafana dashboards >>> for each device type right? >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 1:25 PM Ben Kochie <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> 90% of what you need from all the vendors is `if_mib`. The basic >>>> network traffic stats. >>>> >>>> Once you have that, you can start to learn more about the >>>> vendor-specific MIBs. >>>> >>>> On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 4:40 PM Colton Conor <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> What is the easiest was to use Prometheus with SNMP devices? We use >>>>> over 20 different network vendors like Juniper, Cisco, Nokia, etc, and >>>>> multiple models/devices under each brand. Each one of these has custom >>>>> MIBs, and we are not SNMP experts. So we need a easy way to add multiple >>>>> SNMP devices. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups "Prometheus Users" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/d40e0fa4-d44f-4bda-a753-5bea821b05f6%40googlegroups.com >>>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/d40e0fa4-d44f-4bda-a753-5bea821b05f6%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>>> . >>>>> >>>> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Prometheus Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/CAMDdSzPnyEZn2YtGtvkCcg6-mUdyiw%2Bi6gg%3DEAdMKev5SKxC8w%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/CAMDdSzPnyEZn2YtGtvkCcg6-mUdyiw%2Bi6gg%3DEAdMKev5SKxC8w%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/CABbyFmr1ZgbgOOVJ10Qunn%3DetuVPnssNTD4Op5JoTP5f2fWd2w%40mail.gmail.com.
