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sFlow Monitoring Template

This InfluxDB Template can be used to monitor traffic from sFlow sources.

sFlow Bandwidth Screenshot

sFlow Top Talkers Screenshot

Quick Install

InfluxDB UI

In the InfluxDB UI, go to Settings->Templates and enter this URL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/influxdata/community-templates/master/sflow/sflow.yml

Influx CLI

If you have your InfluxDB credentials configured in the CLI, you can install this template with:

influx apply -u https://raw.githubusercontent.com/influxdata/community-templates/master/sflow/sflow.yml

Included Resources

  • 1 Bucket: sflow_data, 2d retention
  • Labels: sFlow, Network Monitoring, and Telegraf Plugin Labels
  • 1 Telegraf Configuration
  • 4 Dashboards: sFlow - Top Talkers, sFlow - Source/Destination Traffic, sFlow - Ingress/Egress Traffic, sFlow - Bandwidth Usage
  • 6 Variable: sflow_dest, agent_host, egress_interface, sflow_source, ingress_interface, sflow_metric

Setup Instructions

General instructions on using InfluxDB Templates can be found in the use a template document.

The data for the dashboard is populated by the included Telegraf configuration which includes the sFlow Input. You may need to customize the input configuration, specific the service_address value, depending on where your sFlow packets are coming from. More information can be found in the Telegraf sFlow Input documentation.

The Telegraf Configuration requires the following environment variables:

  • INFLUX_TOKEN - The token with the permissions to read Telegraf configs and write data to the telegraf bucket. You can just use your operator token to get started.
  • INFLUX_ORG - The name of your Organization (this will be your email address on the InfluxDB Cloud free tier)
  • INFLUX_HOST - The URL of your InfluxDB host (this can your localhost, a remote instance, or InfluxDB Cloud)

You MUST set these environment variables before running Telegraf using something similar to the following commands

  • This can be found on the Load Data > Tokens page in your browser: export INFLUX_TOKEN=TOKEN
  • Your Organization name can be found on the Settings page in your browser: export INFLUX_ORG=my_org

Running Telegraf

To gather sFlow data from your network, download and install Telegraf. InfluxData provides native packages for a number of distributions as well as binaries that can be executed directly.

Start Telegraf using the instructions from the Load Data > Telegraf > Setup Instructions link in the UI.

Customizations

You can customize it based on your sFlow setup. More information can be found in the Telegraf sFlow Input documentation.

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