RouterOS Prometheus client

Description

Prometheus client for Mikrotik devices. Can be configured to collect metrics from a single device or multiple devices.

To access the api, use RouterOS-api.

To create metrics, use Prometheus Python Client.

Install

pip install routeros-prometheus-client

Usage

Mikrotik Config

Create a user on the device that has API and read-only access.

/user group add name=prometheus policy=api,read,winbox

Create the user to access the API via.

/user add name=prometheus group=prometheus password=changeme

Create config file

[my_router]
host = 192.168.1.1
username = login
password = password
plaintext_login = True

[my_second_router]
host = 192.168.1.2
username = login
password = password
plaintext_login = True

• [section] - String - Used for identification device
• host - String - Hostname or IP of device
• username - String - Login username - Default 'admin'
• password - String - Login password - Default empty string
• port - Integer - TCP Port for API - Default 8728 or 8729 when using SSL
• plaintext_login - Boolean - Try plaintext login (for RouterOS 6.43 onwards) - Default False
• use_ssl - Boolean - Use SSL or not? - Default False
• ssl_verify - Boolean - Verify the SSL certificate? - Default True
• ssl_verify_hostname - Boolean - Verify the SSL certificate hostname matches? - Default True
• ssl_context - Object - Pass in a custom SSL context object. Overrides other options. - Default None

Start routeros-prometheus-client

routeros-prometheus-client -c routeros-prometheus-client\config.ini -p 8000

• -c --config path to config.ini
• -p --port HTTPServer port