Background

This is Prometheus exporter for Mikrotik routers and switches.

This is yet another Mikrotik exporter implementation besides well known nshttpd/mikrotik-exporter and akpw/mktxp

Unlike others codemowers/mikrotik-exporter strives to:

• be purely protocol converter, thus it has no separate configuration files
• work with dns_sd_configs
• work with static_configs
• work with Prometheus operator Probe CRD
• be highly concurrent utilizing async Python and doesn't use threads
• be implemented as single Python file
• optionally scrape MAC and IP addresses to mikrotik_neighbor_host_info, mikrotik_bridge_host_info metrics via module: full
• follow Prometheus naming conventions

Usage

Refer to config/prometheus.yaml to see how to use directly.

Refer to git.k-space.ee/k-space/kube for usage in Kubernetes.

Some example queries: Wait for targets to be scraped, open up Prometheus to run queries:

Interface thoughput rates:

rate(mikrotik_interface_rx_bytes[1m])
rate(mikrotik_interface_tx_bytes[1m])
rate(mikrotik_interface_rx_packets[1m])
rate(mikrotik_interface_tx_packets[1m])

Hosts running at low link speeds by MAC address:

mikrotik_bridge_host_info * on(instance, interface) group_left() mikrotik_interface_rate / 1000000 < 1000

Hosts by MAC and IP address merged from switches and router:

mikrotik_neighbor_host_info{identity_name="router"} * on(mac) group_left(interface) mikrotik_bridge_host_info{identity_name!="router",interface=~"ether.*",vid="20"}

Hosts by link speed, MAC address and IP address merged from switches and router:

min without(identity_name, interface, status, namespace, job, instance, version, vid) (
  mikrotik_neighbor_host_info{identity_name="router"}
  * on(mac) group_left(interface, vid, vendor)
  (mikrotik_bridge_host_info{identity_name!="router",vid="20"}
* on(instance, interface) group_left()
  mikrotik_interface_rate / 1000000
))

Hosts in a subnet:

mikrotik_neighbor_host_info{address=~"193\\.40\\.103\\..*"}

Hosts in a subnet by MAC and IP address:

mikrotik_neighbor_host_info{address=~"193\\.40\\.103\\..*", identity_name="router"} * on(mac) group_left() mikrotik_bridge_host_info{identity_name!="router",vid="20",interface=~"sfp.*|ether.*"}

Host IPv4 and IPv6 addresses by MAC address:

mikrotik_neighbor_host_info{mac="fa:fa:fa:fa:fa:fa"}

Why not SNMP

SNMP for whatever reason is horribly slow on Mikrotik, see here for discussion. It takes 2+ minutes to scrape over SNMP vs few seconds over management API. Also PoE status codes are not fully documented for SNMP, see forum post here.