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[Maria Del Carmen Misa Moreira <>]

Hi Jordi and Csaba,

The declaration of the sensors were like that. I run these commands without 
problems and now I have data on both sensors, my apologies maybe I didn't 
export all of them.

Cheers,
Carmen Misa

> On 10/12/2021 13:03 mc36 <> wrote:
> 
>  
> hi,
> could you please check the following:
> 1-the counters are reported from the dataplane:
>    sho inter hwsumm
>    sho inter hwpsumm
> 2-if the sensor data created properly?
>    sho sens ifaces-hw
>    sho sens ifaces-hwp
> 3-if the sensors are replyed properly?
>    sho sens
> thanks,
> cs
> 
> 
> 
> On 12/10/21 12:18, Maria Del Carmen Misa Moreira wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm creating some Grafana dashboards by using Prometheus DB.
> > I have data on ifaces-hw-byte-tx/rx but not on ifaces-hw-pack-tx/rx, any 
> > idea about this? Maybe the sensors changed again or something like that.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Carmen Misa
> > 
> > 
> >> On 01/12/2021 16:51 mc36 <> wrote:
> >>
> >>   
> >> hi,
> >> well, we moved away to sensors framework when we added streaming 
> >> telemetry too...
> >> these are the current sensors: http://sources.nop.hu/misc/sensor/
> >> but as you should already spotted, freerouter show commands are almost 
> >> exclusively
> >> tables, mostly ordered from left to right by the importance of the 
> >> information,
> >> and this approach works well with prometheus... if you take a closer 
> >> look on
> >> these sensor definitions, they're just a show command and the columns to 
> >> export...
> >> it means that you can easily define your very own sensor if you miss 
> >> something...
> >> regarding the dataplanes, the dpdk dataplane attaches and updates the 
> >> counters
> >> on every aspect but the tofino dataplane does it in just come cases, and 
> >> the
> >> more sad thing is that the middleware bf_forwarder.p4 only reads the 
> >> subinterface
> >> counters and not the rest of the counters... it's a point where things 
> >> should
> >> improve a lot so if you're willing to join the development, and you enjoy
> >> python hacking then it's a point where really need some help... :)
> >> regards,
> >> cs
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 12/1/21 13:19, Fr  d  ric LOUI wrote:
> >>> Hi Carmen,
> >>>
> >>> The blog you are referring is unfortunately not up to date.
> >>>
> >>> "server prometheus    is actually now using freeRtr sensors.
> >>>
> >>> I'm glad as it is a good opportunity to update it !
> >>> Maybe if you are interested we can give you access to the blog in edit 
> >>> mode and you can help us updating it ?
> >>>
> >>> Apart from that I presume that mc36 will come up with more details on 
> >>> exporting data via prometheus using sensor.
> >>>
> >>> Basically it is a 2 steps process:
> >>>
> >>> 1) let   s activate 4 sensors:
> >>>
> >>> !
> >>> sensor ifaces-hw
> >>>    path interfaces-hw/interface/counter
> >>>    prefix freertr-ifaces
> >>>    prepend iface_hw_byte_
> >>>    command sho inter hwsumm
> >>>    name 0 ifc=
> >>>    key name interfaces-hw/interface
> >>>    replace \. _
> >>>    column 1 name st
> >>>    column 1 replace admin -1
> >>>    column 1 replace down 0
> >>>    column 1 replace up 1
> >>>    column 2 name tx
> >>>    column 3 name rx
> >>>    column 4 name dr
> >>>    exit
> >>> !
> >>> sensor ifaces-hwp
> >>>    path interfaces-hwp/interface/counter
> >>>    prefix freertr-ifaces
> >>>    prepend iface_hw_pack_
> >>>    command sho inter hwpsumm
> >>>    name 0 ifc=
> >>>    key name interfaces-hwp/interface
> >>>    replace \. _
> >>>    column 1 name st
> >>>    column 1 replace admin -1
> >>>    column 1 replace down 0
> >>>    column 1 replace up 1
> >>>    column 2 name tx
> >>>    column 3 name rx
> >>>    column 4 name dr
> >>>    exit
>  >>> !
> >>> sensor ifaces-sw
> >>>    path interfaces-sw/interface/counter
> >>>    prefix freertr-ifaces
> >>>    prepend iface_sw_byte_
> >>>    command sho inter swsumm
> >>>    name 0 ifc=
> >>>    key name interfaces-sw/interface
> >>>    replace \. _
> >>>    column 1 name st
> >>>    column 1 replace admin -1
> >>>    column 1 replace down 0
> >>>    column 1 replace up 1
> >>>    column 2 name tx
> >>>    column 3 name rx
> >>>    column 4 name dr
> >>>    exit
> >>> !
> >>> sensor ifaces-swp
> >>>    path interfaces-swp/interface/counter
> >>>    prefix freertr-ifaces
> >>>    prepend iface_sw_pack_
> >>>    command sho inter swpsumm
> >>>    name 0 ifc=
> >>>    key name interfaces-swp/interface
> >>>    replace \. _
> >>>    column 1 name st
> >>>    column 1 replace admin -1
> >>>    column 1 replace down 0
> >>>    column 1 replace up 1
> >>>    column 2 name tx
> >>>    column 3 name rx
> >>>    column 4 name dr
> >>>    exit
> >>> !
> >>>
> >>> Then activate prometheus server:
> >>>
> >>> server prometheus pr
> >>>    sensor ifaces-hw
> >>>    sensor ifaces-hwp
> >>>    sensor ifaces-sw
> >>>    sensor ifaces-swp
> >>>    interface tunnel123 <put source  interface of your promtheus target>
> >>>    vrf <PUT VRF where your prometheus server_is_>
> >>>    exit
> >>>
> >>> And you are good to go.
> >>>
> >>> They are more sensors, this is a totally dynamic way to reflect FreeRtr 
> >>> visibility and make it available to external prometheus server.
> >>>
> >>> PS: Please let me know if you are willing to edit the Blog and I   ll 
> >>> arrange to grant you relevant access !  :)
> >>>
> >>> All the best,
> >>> Frederic
> >>>
> >>>> Le 1 d  c. 2021    13:02, Carmen Misa Moreira 
> >>>> <> a   crit :
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi all,
> >>>>
> >>>> I would like to create Grafana Dashboards with the data and statistics 
> >>>> collected from the P4 switch.
> >>>>
> >>>> I was reading the wiki 
> >>>> https://wiki.geant.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=154995651 but 
> >>>> maybe it's not up to date.
> >>>>
> >>>> This example uses iface_hw_byte_ and iface_sw_byte_. I would like to 
> >>>> know if there is a command to list all the counters and metrics 
> >>>> available to export the data?
> >>>>
> >>>> Best regards,
> >>>>
> >>>> Carmen Misa
> >>>>
> >>>