Network Monitoring & Mgmt

[DatacenterDude]

So as we round out 2024, I'm curious... What is everyone using in their homelabs to monitor the network stack? Is there one central control plane that can talk to pfSense, Cisco/MicroTik switches, various firewalls, etc?

I'm admittedly not the CCNP network engineer I once was 20 years ago, and would love to have some kind of NOC setup to just keep track of all the networking happening.

Hoping for some good suggestions!

 

[Mal]

i'm using a few different tools, though i've considered looking into consolidating things. i'm still using PRTG bc it's dead simple (with a Grafana extension that pulls the data into my dashboard). i also use https://github.com/bsmithio/OPNsense-Dashboard/tree/master which takes data from Influx and Graylog.

 

[DatacenterDude]

PRTG is (and always has been) on the radar, but I've never truly seen some kind of networking "vCenter" universal control plane that can manage across vendor stacks. I love the Uptime package and looking forward to getting that running again, especially for alerting, but it seems I'm going to have to stick to native tools for now.

 

[Mal]

yeah a single-pane solution would be excellent. you may be able to do some basic stuff the SNMP plugin for Telegraf, but that's a lot of manual work and assumes devices expose what you want via SNMP.