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czerwonk / bird_exporter

Bird protocol state exporter for bird routing daemon to use with https://prometheus.io/

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Zabbix Integration #76

Closed interduo closed 1 year ago

interduo commented 2 years ago

I see the good code here ... You have done 95% code also for integration with zabbix.

Is it possible to print all the metrics from BGP on screen using some compact format like CSV?

I would like to use zabbix_sender (https://github.com/zarplata/zabbix-sender-php) then to send all the values to zabbix.

paketb0te commented 1 year ago

If you insist on using Zabbix, apparently it has support for reading data in the prometheus format: Prometheus checks

But honestly, do yourself a favor and ditch Zabbix ;)

interduo commented 1 year ago

Thanks for the answer.

But honestly, do yourself a favor and ditch Zabbix ;)

Yes - it has got some underdeveloped features but ... it's not that bad in broader view. It's better than nagios or cacti.

paketb0te commented 1 year ago

It's better than nagios or cacti.

I can't really speak to that, as I've used neither nagios nor cacti. But I do have a direct comparison between Zabbix and Prometheus, and that comparison is very unfavorable for Zabbix...

interduo commented 1 year ago

sorry for making an offtopic but its also important topic for me: What is advantage of Prometheus comparing to Zabbix? (I didn't use Prometheus much in production) I use zabbix at <10k items now and it's working like charm.

paketb0te commented 1 year ago

Reason #1 for me is the query language.

I find it much easier to define alerts etc. in PromQL than with zabbix checks.

Other reasons, in no particular order:

better performance
super easy to expose metrics (if you develop an application)
there are exporters (small tools that transform metrics into Prometheus-readable format) for many things, and it is quite simple to write one if it does not exist for your use case - I find it much more elegant than having to run some script every poll cycle with zabbix.
the accompanying Alertmanager is a great tool for Alert handling

I acknowledge that I am probably a bit biased, but just recently I tried to build a check in Zabbix that compares the current value of a metric with a previous value - it worked in the end, but the syntax was just so terrible, it was quite a frustrating experience.

interduo commented 1 year ago

Yes - query language is not as pleasant as it could be but it's not totally awful ;-) I don't have a performance issues - the default install of postgresql instance needs some db tunning. That is nice I didn't try this in zabbix - some day I will write an integration with our CRM. Yeah exporters looks very useful. I use Telegram and Slack transport instead of other application for me it's better.

One more time - thanks for Your point of view! Some day I will try Prometheus if zabbix will be botleneck.