[Check_mk (english)] Livestatus & Grafana

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We use Grafana extensively for our dashboards, and while it’s great to be be able to show performance metrics (via Infuxdb connection) how do we show data from livestatus, for instance, we want to show all services that are CRIT with a
host tag of SERVER as a counter in Grafana.

Anyone achieved this?

Gavin

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Hi Gavin,

I think for such a datasource plugin the livestatus data must be available thru a restful API.

Sven Nierlein from ConSol wrote such a restful API for his Thruk frontend. Thruk by itself uses Livestatus for all the status data in the background.

Take a look at his github repo https://github.com/sni/grafana-thruk-datasource

If you have some free time try to connect a Thruk webfrontend to one of your monitoring servers and then use the Grafana connector to Thruk :slight_smile:

Best regards

Andreas

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Am Do., 14. März 2019 um 13:49 Uhr schrieb Gavin Hill gavin@highpeak.co.za:

We use Grafana extensively for our dashboards, and while it’s great to be be able to show performance metrics (via Infuxdb connection) how do we show data from livestatus, for instance, we want to show all services that are CRIT with a
host tag of SERVER as a counter in Grafana.

Anyone achieved this?

Gavin

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Thanks Andreas. So install Thruk and then use the grafana plugin for Thruk? Seem a bit convoluted but I’ll give it a try and see if I can get some useful data out.

Gavin

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From: Andreas Döhler andreas.doehler@gmail.com
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2019 6:04 pm
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Subject: Re: [Check_mk (english)] Livestatus & Grafana

Hi Gavin,

I think for such a datasource plugin the livestatus data must be available thru a restful API.

Sven Nierlein from ConSol wrote such a restful API for his Thruk frontend. Thruk by itself uses Livestatus for all the status data in the background.

Take a look at his github repo https://github.com/sni/grafana-thruk-datasource

If you have some free time try to connect a Thruk webfrontend to one of your monitoring servers and then use the Grafana connector to Thruk :slight_smile:

Best regards

Andreas

Am Do., 14. März 2019 um 13:49 Uhr schrieb Gavin Hill gavin@highpeak.co.za:

We use Grafana extensively for our dashboards, and while it’s great to be be able to show performance metrics (via Infuxdb connection) how do we show data from livestatus, for instance, we want to show all services that are CRIT with a
host tag of SERVER as a counter in Grafana.

Anyone achieved this?

Gavin

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I don’t know if this work as you expected :slight_smile:
It was only a thought i had for your problem.

To test with Thruk i would use the OMD build from ConSol in a single view only site and connect Thruk with Livestatus to your real site.

Then you can test a little bit with the Thruk API.

Best regards

Andreas

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Am Do., 14. März 2019 um 19:13 Uhr schrieb Gavin Hill gavin@highpeak.co.za:

Thanks Andreas. So install Thruk and then use the grafana plugin for Thruk? Seem a bit convoluted but I’ll give it a try and see if I can get some useful data out.

Gavin

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Subject: Re: [Check_mk (english)] Livestatus & Grafana

Hi Gavin,

I think for such a datasource plugin the livestatus data must be available thru a restful API.

Sven Nierlein from ConSol wrote such a restful API for his Thruk frontend. Thruk by itself uses Livestatus for all the status data in the background.

Take a look at his github repo https://github.com/sni/grafana-thruk-datasource

If you have some free time try to connect a Thruk webfrontend to one of your monitoring servers and then use the Grafana connector to Thruk :slight_smile:

Best regards

Andreas

Am Do., 14. März 2019 um 13:49 Uhr schrieb Gavin Hill gavin@highpeak.co.za:

We use Grafana extensively for our dashboards, and while it’s great to be be able to show performance metrics (via Infuxdb connection) how do we show data from livestatus, for instance, we want to show all services that are CRIT with a
host tag of SERVER as a counter in Grafana.

Anyone achieved this?

Gavin

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So it seems Thruk reports to InfluxDB and can use the Histou plugin for Grafana to help create some templates, but this is all for performance data. I can’t see to find anywhere to get real time
status data for display on a Grafana dashboard.

How are others presenting wallboards/large format displays with status data from check_mk?

Gavin

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Thanks Andreas. So install Thruk and then use the grafana plugin for Thruk? Seem a bit convoluted but I’ll give it a try and see if I can get some useful data out.

Gavin

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m: +27 83 601 8181
t: +27 10 020 5959

From: Andreas Döhler andreas.doehler@gmail.com
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2019 6:04 pm
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Subject: Re: [Check_mk (english)] Livestatus & Grafana

Hi Gavin,

I think for such a datasource plugin the livestatus data must be available thru a restful API.

Sven Nierlein from ConSol wrote such a restful API for his Thruk frontend. Thruk by itself uses Livestatus for all the status data in the background.

Take a look at his github repo https://github.com/sni/grafana-thruk-datasource

If you have some free time try to connect a Thruk webfrontend to one of your monitoring servers and then use the Grafana connector to Thruk :slight_smile:

Best regards

Andreas

Am Do., 14. März 2019 um 13:49 Uhr schrieb Gavin Hill gavin@highpeak.co.za:

We use Grafana extensively for our dashboards, and while it’s great to be be able to show performance metrics (via Infuxdb connection) how do we show data from livestatus, for instance,
we want to show all services that are CRIT with a host tag of SERVER as a counter in Grafana.

Anyone achieved this?

Gavin

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Hi Gavin,

I tested this setup with Grafana - Thruk + Thruk API - Livestatus Connection from Thruk to existing Check_MK site.

It is only possible to display status with this setup and no performance data! Thruk is only working as a broker between Check_MK and Grafana. There is no other TSB or anything like that involved.

Steps i had done.

Use actual OMD laps edition to create a site with Thruk web front end and without any hosts. Create Livestatus connection from Thruk to your existing site.

All your hosts should be visible inside Thruk

Setup the Thruk plugin for Grafana - https://grafana.com/plugins/sni-thruk-datasource

Explore your data from Grafana.

Best regards

Andreas

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Am Di., 19. März 2019 um 10:43 Uhr schrieb Gavin Hill gavin@highpeak.co.za:

So it seems Thruk reports to InfluxDB and can use the Histou plugin for Grafana to help create some templates, but this is all for performance data. I can’t see to find anywhere to get real time
status data for display on a Grafana dashboard.

How are others presenting wallboards/large format displays with status data from check_mk?

Gavin

–

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  	t: +27 10 020 5959

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Thanks Andreas. So install Thruk and then use the grafana plugin for Thruk? Seem a bit convoluted but I’ll give it a try and see if I can get some useful data out.

Gavin

–

Gavin Hill | Director

m: +27 83 601 8181

t: +27 10 020 5959

From: Andreas Döhler andreas.doehler@gmail.com
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2019 6:04 pm
To: Gavin Hill
Cc: checkmk-en@lists.mathias-kettner.de
Subject: Re: [Check_mk (english)] Livestatus & Grafana

Hi Gavin,

I think for such a datasource plugin the livestatus data must be available thru a restful API.

Sven Nierlein from ConSol wrote such a restful API for his Thruk frontend. Thruk by itself uses Livestatus for all the status data in the background.

Take a look at his github repo https://github.com/sni/grafana-thruk-datasource

If you have some free time try to connect a Thruk webfrontend to one of your monitoring servers and then use the Grafana connector to Thruk :slight_smile:

Best regards

Andreas

Am Do., 14. März 2019 um 13:49 Uhr schrieb Gavin Hill gavin@highpeak.co.za:

We use Grafana extensively for our dashboards, and while it’s great to be be able to show performance metrics (via Infuxdb connection) how do we show data from livestatus, for instance,
we want to show all services that are CRIT with a host tag of SERVER as a counter in Grafana.

Anyone achieved this?

Gavin

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