Telegraf/InfluxDB/Grafana Dashboard @home

It seems that the TIG-Stack not only excels in the data center, but as a home automation UI as well – thanks to the versatile Telegraf input agent. Stock OEM display solutions often cost an arm and a leg, so I decided to build my own over a year ago. This post is about the hard- and software in use, as well as the necessary configuration to realize a useful dashboard system for your precious home.

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Monitor Cisco NX-OS/ACI via SNMP and the TIG-Stack

I know, even Cisco NX-OS has a REST-API and Streaming Telemetry these days.
But you, or established processes in your organisation, might find it helpful to handle all switch ‘Telemetry’ in the same way using good old per device SNMP polling. A quick poll* on the Twitters seems to validate that ~80% of production network metrics are still SNMP anyway.

*See what I did there?

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