Monitoring VyOS using visualisation?

Influxdb is a time serie database, it used yo have an admin gui but that has been deprecated, if you want to check whether Vyos is sending data to influx correctly, you need to either:

  • add the visualization container for Influx, called chronograph
  • open a shell to the influxdb container, and run queries on the the influx cli

Neither prometheus nor influxdb have ‘pre-configured graphs’, Grafana has already made dashboards tailored to specific data collection agents and specific backend databases

In my previous post I linked to a dashboard that has pre-configured widgets when you use prometheus’s node_exporter as a collection agent and prometheus as a backend.
If you are using telegraf, one dashboard may be this one: InfluxDB Linux Server Telegraf | Grafana Labs
but it really depends on the model used for collecting and stoing data into the database …