tplink-exporter | prometheus

A tplink exporter for prometheus, written in go. Uses ants, logrus, godotenv, prometheus

Ants is used to create a 20 item pool of goroutines. Feel free to change that number here

Supported/Tested Hardware & Firmware:

• T2600G = 3.0.3fw
• T1600G = 3.0.3fw

Feel free to try on other TPLink hardware, and let me know if it works!

Here is an example of CPU usage on a switch using this software vs using the built in STP metrics

• tplink-exporter | prometheus
  • Building and Running
    • Building from source (*nix):
    • Building docker container (*nix):
    • docker-compose example:
    • config.yaml example:
  • Current Metrics Exported

Building and Running

tplink-exporter can be run directly from binary or in a docker container, choose whichever method you prefer.

To be able to scan devices, the exporter expects a file named config.yaml in the same directory as it, with the devices ip address or dns address. If you are not comfortable with putting credentials in a yaml file, you may also use your username and password as a environment variable.

Building from source (*nix):

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/burningsunrise/tplink-exporter.git && cd tplink-exporter
go mod tidy
GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build -o tplink-exporter .
chmod +x tplink-exporter
./tplink-exporter

Building docker container (*nix):

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/burningsunrise/tplink-exporter.git && cd tplink-exporter
docker buildx build --platform linux/amd64 -t $REGISTRY.com/tplink-exporter:latest --build-arg BUILD_DATE=$(date -u +'%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ') --push .

docker-compose example:

version: '3.9'
services:
  tplink-exporter:
    container_name: tplink-exporter
    image: $REGISTRY.com/tplink-exporter:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - 9797:9797
    environment:
      - USER=${SWITCHUSER}
      - PASSWORD=${SWITCHPASS}
    volumes:
      - /home/$USER/tplink-exporter/config.yaml:/config.yaml

config.yaml example:

devices:
  - 10.1.1.2
  - myswitch.dns.lan
# May include username and password in config.yaml
# Alternatively you can use the USER and PASSWORD
# env variables, e.x.:
# export USER=username
# export PASSWORD=password
user: username
password: password

Current Metrics Exported

Name	Description	Metric	Labels
port_tx_metric	Shows tx packets on the hosts port	Tx Packet #'s	portnumber host
port_rx_metric	Shows rx packets on the hosts port	Rx Packet #'s	portnumber host
port_speed_metric	Shows the hosts port speed	Port speed	portnumber host
port_vlans_metric	Shows the vlans on port number	Port numbner	vlanname vlanid host port
switch_memory_metric	Shows the specific switch memory	Memory %	host macaddress
switch_cpu_metric	Shows the specific switch cpu	Cpu %	host macaddress
port_badrx_metric	Shows bad rx packets on the hosts port	BAD Rx Packet #'s	portnumber host
port_badtx_metric	Shows bad tx packets on the hosts port	BAD Tx Packet #'s	portnumber host
port_broadcastrx_metric	Shows broadcast rx packets the hosts port	Broadcast Rx #'s	portnumber host
port_broadcasttx_metric	Shows broadcast tx packets the hosts port	Broadcast Tx #'s	portnumber host
port_multicasttx_metric	Shows multicast tx packets on the hosts port	Multicast Tx #'s	portnumber host
port_multicastrx_metric	Shows multicast rx packets on the hosts port	Multicast Rx #'s	portnumber host
port_unicasttx_metric	Shows unicast tx packets on the hosts port	Unicast Tx #'s	portnumber host
port_unicastrx_metric	Shows unicast rx packets on the hosts port	Unicast Rx #'s	portnumber host
switch_generalinfo_metric	Shows general information about the switch with temperature as a metric	Temperature	devicelocation sysdescription host hwversion fmversion macaddress systime runtime serialnum