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# Monitor your Mikrotik router with Prometheus and Grafana
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Over the past years I replaced all my networking gear with Mikrotik devices. Nothing compares to Mikrotik in terms of price, features, performance and reliability. I absolutely love WinBox for management, but sometimes I miss some fancy charts and graphs. Luckily, RouterOS comes with a REST-API that can be used to query arbitrary data from the device.
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## Setup
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- Router running RouterOS 7.x.x
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- Raspberry Pi 4 with 2 gb RAM
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## Demo pictures
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## Installation
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## Mikrotik Router
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At first you need to prepare your router.
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Create a group on the device that has API and read-only access:
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`/user group add name=prometheus policy=api,read,winbox,test`
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Create a user that is part of the group:
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`/user add name=prometheus group=prometheus password=TOP_SECRET`
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Because the library makes a new connection for every API request, your logs are getting cluttered:
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`system logging set 0 topics=info,!account`
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## Prepare Raspi
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Install Python and pip:
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`sudo apt install python3-dev python3 python3-pip -y`
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Install Docker + Docker-compose
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```bash
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curl -sSL https://get.docker.com | sh
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sudo usermod -aG docker ubuntu
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sudo pip3 install docker-compose
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sudo systemctl enable docker
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```
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