Integration 6 Wind Router with Grafana

This topic will cover how to integrate a 6Wind router (either Physical or Virtual) with Grafana, a monitoring platform that shows runtime information on a web-based graphical interface.

To do so, we should prepare at least 1 Ubuntu 22.04 (Virtual or physical) that can connect to the 6Wind IP Management access to install the Grafana Services.

First, we can start installing the dependencies, clone the repository and use the start script just like the command below:

# apt-get update
# apt-get install docker-compose python3-requests docker.io
$ git clone https://github.com/6WIND/supervision-grafana.git
$ cd supervision-grafana
$ ./start tools/confs/vsr-3.8.yaml
Creating network "supervision-grafana_monitoring" with the default driver
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Status: Downloaded newer image for influxdb:1.8.10
Pulling grafana (grafana/grafana:9.5.3)...
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Status: Downloaded newer image for grafana/grafana:9.5.3
Creating influxdb ... done
Creating grafana  ... done
{"datasource":{"id":1,"uid":"d7e39504-41c3-4f71-b615-70d3895a4bab","orgId":1,"name":"influxdb","type":"influxdb","typeLogoUrl":"","access":"proxy","url":"http://influxdb:8086","user":"","database":"telegraf","basicAuth":false,"basicAuthUser":"","withCredentials":false,"isDefault":true,"jsonData":{},"secureJsonFields":{},"version":1,"readOnly":false},"id":1,"message":"Datasource added","name":"influxdb"}
{"id":1,"slug":"overview","status":"success","uid":"dac5535c-f468-41f1-80c0-183ea60107cb","url":"/d/dac5535c-f468-41f1-80c0-183ea60107cb/overview","version":1}
{"id":2,"slug":"debug","status":"success","uid":"f68a9276-f66b-43bb-9387-fea91b3093df","url":"/d/f68a9276-f66b-43bb-9387-fea91b3093df/debug","version":1}
{"id":3,"slug":"cg-nat","status":"success","uid":"a8184370-5d23-470b-90c6-55516d9ddc03","url":"/d/a8184370-5d23-470b-90c6-55516d9ddc03/cg-nat","version":1}
{"id":4,"slug":"firewall","status":"success","uid":"b307d3e1-c470-4949-9ab9-47948359b4c5","url":"/d/b307d3e1-c470-4949-9ab9-47948359b4c5/firewall","version":1}
{"id":5,"slug":"router","status":"success","uid":"b9e35b7c-1904-49dc-a4a4-9fce4b3fb457","url":"/d/b9e35b7c-1904-49dc-a4a4-9fce4b3fb457/router","version":1}


Go to http://localhost:3000 for Grafana dashboard (admin/admin)

After installation, you can log in as admin/admin to http://Server-Ubuntu-IP-Access:3000

In the 6Wind device, you should enter the command below to make the device send the data to the InfluxDB database. But first, make sure the 6Wind device can reach the Server Ubuntu IP Address via 6Wind IP management access.

vrouter> edit running 
vrouter running config# / vrf main kpi telegraf metrics template all 
vrouter running kpi# / vrf main kpi telegraf influxdb-output url http://<Server-Ubuntu-IP-Access:8086 database telegraf 
vrouter running kpi# commit