Louis
I wanted to monitor my Mikrotik routers with an SNMP exporter, but didn't really know where to start and didn't want to invest a lot of time into it, so I searched for ready-to-use solutions. ​​
Found some, deployed, was quite satisfied. ​​
"Wait, this metric doesn't seem to work, lemme check that ​​"
"But I don't have the SNMP exporter generator file... Fine, I'll rebuild one myself. ​​"
"Uuh, this metric on the dashboard doesn't seem to use the right identifier... lemme fix that real quick ​​"

"OK fine, I'll do it myself then! ​​"
Mar 24 at 5:40pmWeb
Show threadGrzegorz Cichocki2d ago
@louis which Mikrotik devices do you have?
Show threadLouis2d ago
@cichy1173 mainly an RB5009 and a Chateau, along with a few hAPs/hEXs ​​
Show threadGrzegorz Cichocki2d ago
@louis we have shared Zabbix and I see that my friends monitor Mikrotik devices using the official zabbix templates. I want to buy HAP BE3 and probably I will do the same 
Show threadLouis2d ago
@cichy1173 the be³ looks soooo nice ​​ but yeah we talked about it iirc, and I even wrote a Zabbix template from scratch to monitor the PoE stats from my RB5009, not sure where I've put it though ​​ but I'm not using Zabbix anymore
Show threadGrzegorz Cichocki2d ago
@louis Oh, did you migrate to something else?
Show threadLouis1d ago
@cichy1173 yes I did ​​ I moved to Prometheus and Grafana ​​
Show threadGrzegorz Cichocki1d ago
@louis can you tell why?
Show threadLouis16h ago
@cichy1173 yeah, I migrated my homelab from Proxmox to Kubernetes and the standard way to collect metrics on K8s is to use Prometheus, so I'm using this migration as another opportunity to learn and try new things ​​
Show threadGrzegorz Cichocki15h ago
@louis which flavour of Kubernetes?
Show threadLouis11h ago
@cichy1173 I'm using Talos Linux if that's what you meant by flavour ​​
Talos Linux - The Kubernetes Operating System

Talos Linux is a secure, immutable, and minimal operating system for Kubernetes. API-managed, declarative configuration, and fast deployments.

Show threadGrzegorz Cichocki4h ago
@louis yeah, It is on ma radar too. Now I am practising K8S on MicroK8S but I am thinking about switching to Talos 
Show threadstfn40m ago
@cichy1173 @louis nice conversation you go there. I am thinking of having another go at Kubernetes, but for now I just want to also have some monitoring of my Mikrotik devices
Show threadGrzegorz Cichocki17m ago
@stfn @louis You can use Zabbix to monitor k8s, which is possible, we do that at work. Or you can monitor it more "natively" for K8S with Prometheus but still use Zabbix to monitor hardware. In Grafana you can use Zabbix as the Data Source.