Monitoring My UniFi Network with Prometheus and Grafana

Now that I've got Prometheus and Grafana all set up to pull in metrics from Proxmox, I figured it might be cool to pull in all the data from the UniFi gear too.

These instructions assume you already have Prometheus and Grafana set up and running. If not, you can read about that setup here.

I'm going to set up the UniFi Poller on the same LXC container I'm running prometheus-pve-exporter on. So this container will just be the one that pulls in all the data from different places. Once that's set up I'll configure my Prometheus container to pull in the new UniFi stuff and Grafana is already set up so it should just be ready to go.

Before starting, create a new user in the UniFiOS and give it the View Only role.

Setup UniFi Poller

Download and install UniFi Poller

curl -s https://golift.io/repo.sh | sudo bash -s - unpoller

Edit the config file

nano /etc/unpoller/up.conf

Set disable = true in the InfluxDB section

Change the url in the [unifi] section to the IP address of UniFiOS 192.168.X.X and remove the colon and port

Change the user to the view-only user that you created earlier

Save and exit

Prometheus config

Log in to the Prometheus container and edit the config file

nano /etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml

After the last entry in scrape_configs add:

  - job_name: 'unifi'
    static_configs:
      - targets: ["192.168.X.X:9130"] # The IP address of the container running UniPoll

Restart Prometheus

systemctl restart prometheus

Grafana

Install Grafana plugins

grafana-cli plugins install grafana-clock-panel

grafana-cli plugins install natel-discrete-panel

grafana-cli plugins install grafana-piechart-panel

Restart Grafana

systemctl restart grafana-server.service

Add UniFi dashboards to Grafana

Open up Grafana in the browser
Click the Dashboards option from the left menu and select "+ Import"
In the textfield labeled "Import via grafana.com"
Enter in any of the UniPoller Prometheus dashboards listed below

UnPoller dashboard options

I mainly just look at the Clients one, but it's nice to have the Sites and Client DPI ones too sometimes.

References:

pywkt