Showing LibreNMS data on Grafana dashboards

Now that you have an InfluxDB database with the metrics from LibreNMS, you can access the data from Grafana by adding the InfluxDB database as a data source. You have learned how to do this in Chapter 4, Data Sources for Grafana. All you need to do is to enter the access parameters on the data source configuration page, as you can see in Figure 13.3 and Figure 13.4.

Figure 13.3 – Configuring the InfluxDB data source

After you have added the data source to Grafana, you can perform queries as with any other InfluxDB data source.

Figure 13.4 – Configuring InfluxDB database access

Let’s look at some important measurements and tags in the LibreNMS InfluxDB database.

Depending on the type of device monitored by LibreNMS, you will have different measurements available, as you can see in Figure 13.5.

Figure 13.5 – Selecting measurements on the LibreNMS...