Skyline telemtry

Adam_Kouril — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 11:47:16 GMT

Hello everyone,

I would like to ask about your experience with metrics for Skyline (Prometheus/Grafana) from Check Point. I am particularly interested in network metrics such as BGP, OSPF, static routing, BFD, etc. Ideally, it would be great to have all of these as telemetry data:

BGP (Border Gateway Protocol)	bgp_peers_up	Number of BGP peers currently in the "Established" state.
	bgp_routes_received	Total number of routes received from all BGP peers.
	bgp_routes_advertised	Total number of routes advertised to all BGP peers.
	bgp_peer_state	State of individual BGP peers (e.g., Idle, Connect, Active, or Established).
	bgp_update_messages_received	Number of BGP update messages received.
	bgp_update_messages_sent	Number of BGP update messages sent.
	bgp_prefixes_received	Total number of prefixes received.
	bgp_last_flap_time	Time since the last BGP session flap occurred.
OSPF (Open Shortest Path First)	ospf_neighbors_up	Number of OSPF neighbors in the "Full" adjacency state.
	ospf_neighbors_total	Total number of configured OSPF neighbors.
	ospf_lsdb_entries	Total number of Link-State Database (LSDB) entries.
	ospf_routes	Total number of routes learned through OSPF.
	ospf_packets_sent	Number of OSPF packets sent.
	ospf_packets_received	Number of OSPF packets received.
	ospf_state_changes	Count of OSPF state changes (e.g., transitions between Init, 2-Way, Full).
	ospf_area_id_status	Health status of specific OSPF areas (e.g., Area 0).
BFD (Bidirectional Forwarding Detection)	bfd_sessions_up	Number of active BFD sessions.
	bfd_sessions_down	Number of BFD sessions currently down.
	bfd_packets_sent	Number of BFD control packets sent.
	bfd_packets_received	Number of BFD control packets received.
	bfd_detection_time	Time taken for a session to detect a fault.

Networking	network_connections_active	Counts the number of active connections.
	network_connections_rate	Tracks the rate of new connections per second.
	network_packets_sent	Tracks the number of packets sent.
	network_packets_received	Tracks the number of packets received.
	network_bytes_sent	Tracks the total bytes sent.
	network_bytes_received	Tracks the total bytes received.

Skyline setup is pretty easy and works well with general metrics. However, I thought it would be possible to go a little deeper and collect more detailed data.

I'm curious: is there any limitation in the availability of metrics for Check Point (like basic data from cpview, on the other hand for example in cpview it is possible to see information about BGP, OSPF etc.), but I wasnt able to find information how to set up these metrics...

This is the official Skyline metrics repository: Skyline Metrics Repository which I used

According to some articles it seems possible to use Prometheus SNMP Exporter and do manual configurations like setting up SNMP exporter for BGP metrics and updating Prometheus configurations. However, I'm not sure if this is the right approach to achieve this and I would like to implement something in production with Check Point's thumb up.

Adam

Re: Skyline telemtry

Elad_Chomsky — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 16:20:13 GMT

Hi @Adam_Kouril ,

We will take this internally and try to see if we can add those metrics to be added as part of the roadmap, for now you can use 'custom scripts' which allow you to report metrics without our intervention.

https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/Appliances/Skyline/Content/Topics-AG/Custom-Metrics.htm?tocpath=_____7

See here for further details.

Re: Skyline telemtry

Adam_Kouril — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 10:29:56 GMT

Hi @Elad_Chomsky
appreciate it! May I ask you about sharing the link of routemap?

Re: Skyline telemtry

Elad_Chomsky — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 10:43:41 GMT

Hi @Adam_Kouril ,

I believe the best course is to open an official RFE request to CheckPoint , so we can give you means to track it directly.

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