sflow_exporter

Serving sflow/RFC3176 traffic metrics as Prometheus endpoints.

Exposed Prometheus Metrics

sflow_agent_drops{agent=<label>} <droped frames, which should have been sampled>
sflow_router_bytes{ether_type=<label>,in=<label>,out=<label>} <globaly deduplicated bytes>

• sflow_agent_drops - counter of samples that were dropped due to missing resources
• sflow_router_bytes - counter of bytes that were transfered between mac addresses

Deployment

• Nix Flake
• Docker ghcr.io/dd-ix/sflow_exporter
• Binary Releases

Configuration

• Pass a meta file using the -m/--meta flag or using the SFLOW_EXPORTER_META environment variable.
• Configure the mode:
  • the check subcommand is used to validate a given meta file.
  • the listen subcommand is used to start the sflow and prometheus listener. The ports can be configured using --sflow_addr/metrics_addr and the environment variables SFLOW_EXPORTER_SFlOW_LISTEN_ADDR and SFLOW_EXPORTER_METRICS_LISTEN_ADDR

Meta Configuration

The meta configuration is used to enrich the data received through sflow. It describes the inventory of your infrastructure.

sflow_exporter monitors the meta file for changes on the file system. If a change is detected it validates the config and if that was successful, applies the new configuration.

# meta.yaml
routers:
  - { mac: 00:00:00:00:00:01, label: 1234 }
  - { mac: 00:00:00:00:00:02, label: 4321 }
agents:
  - { label: sw01.domain.tld, source: fe44::1 }
  - { label: sw02.domain.tld, source: fe44::2 }
ether_types:
  0x0800: { label: IPv4 }
  0x86DD: { label: IPv6 }

Routers

The router property describes all entities that are sending and recvieving packages.

• the mac address is used to identify who send a packet, and who should recvieve it.
• the label the the property is the identification thats passed over to prometheus.

Agents

Agents are used to monitor the amount of droped samples. If this number grows to big, try tuning the sample rate.

• the source address is the ip address that send the sflow packet to sflow_exporter.
• the label the the property is the identification thats passed over to prometheus.

Ether Types

The ether types property lists all for you relevant ether types. All not defined ether types are going to be grouped as other.

• the label the the property is the identification thats passed over to prometheus.

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.