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Adam_Kouril
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Skyline telemtry

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_upNumber of BGP peers currently in the "Established" state.
 bgp_routes_receivedTotal number of routes received from all BGP peers.
 bgp_routes_advertisedTotal number of routes advertised to all BGP peers.
 bgp_peer_stateState of individual BGP peers (e.g., Idle, Connect, Active, or Established).
 bgp_update_messages_receivedNumber of BGP update messages received.
 bgp_update_messages_sentNumber of BGP update messages sent.
 bgp_prefixes_receivedTotal number of prefixes received.
 bgp_last_flap_timeTime since the last BGP session flap occurred.
OSPF (Open Shortest Path First)ospf_neighbors_upNumber of OSPF neighbors in the "Full" adjacency state.
 ospf_neighbors_totalTotal number of configured OSPF neighbors.
 ospf_lsdb_entriesTotal number of Link-State Database (LSDB) entries.
 ospf_routesTotal number of routes learned through OSPF.
 ospf_packets_sentNumber of OSPF packets sent.
 ospf_packets_receivedNumber of OSPF packets received.
 ospf_state_changesCount of OSPF state changes (e.g., transitions between Init, 2-Way, Full).
 ospf_area_id_statusHealth status of specific OSPF areas (e.g., Area 0).
BFD (Bidirectional Forwarding Detection)bfd_sessions_upNumber of active BFD sessions.
 bfd_sessions_downNumber of BFD sessions currently down.
 bfd_packets_sentNumber of BFD control packets sent.
 bfd_packets_receivedNumber of BFD control packets received.
 bfd_detection_timeTime taken for a session to detect a fault.
Networkingnetwork_connections_activeCounts the number of active connections.
 network_connections_rateTracks the rate of new connections per second.
 network_packets_sentTracks the number of packets sent.
 network_packets_receivedTracks the number of packets received.
 network_bytes_sentTracks the total bytes sent.
 network_bytes_receivedTracks 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






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Elad_Chomsky
Employee
Employee

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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Elad_Chomsky
Employee
Employee

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...

See here for further details. 

Adam_Kouril
Explorer

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

Elad_Chomsky
Employee
Employee

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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