checkpoint opentelemetry and telegraf/influxdb

[Luis_Miguel_Mig]

I have  telelegraf influxdb grafana (TIG) stack that allows me to monitor checkpoint asset metrics using classic SNMP and API queries.

Now I would like to use checkpoint open telemetry. As far as I  understand there is no specific documentation for telegraf/influxdb and checkpoint telemetry but  because both checkpoint and telegraf support opentelemetry I guess it may no be difficult to make it work. I was wondering if someone as any insight on it.

First of all I have seen how checkpoint supports prometheus, splunk, dynatrace, victoriametrics, datadog and coralogix

https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/Appliances/Skyline/Content/Topics-AG/Configuration-on-Servers-G....

Secondly the skyline architecture is based on opentelemetry

https://support.checkpoint.com/results/sk/sk178566


I see two integrations options but I reckon the second one may be a  more suitable interface.

- cp agent-> telegraf collector
- cp collector -> telegraf collector

As far as I understand the trick is to configure the cp collector json payload with right parameters.
I see there a few exporter type options like prometheus-remote-write, otlp, otlphttp...

Telegraf has also an input plugin that is basically an opentelemetry collector and it supports prometheus metrics schema.

https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/plugins/outputs/opentelemetry/README.md

I will try it next week but I was wondering if  someone has any experience on it

[Henrik_Noerr1]

Hey,

We are also using a TIG stack, with a payload like:

[Expert@test-vsx-01:0]# cat /home/_nonlocl/payload.json

[Expert@test-vsx-01:0]# cat /home/_nonlocl/payload.json
{
    "enabled": true,
    "export-targets": {"add": [
        {
            "enabled": true,
            "type": "prometheus-remote-write",
            "url": "http://<ip>:9090/api/v1/write"
        }
    ]}
}
[Expert@test-vsx-01:0]#

root@telegraf:/etc/telegraf/telegraf.d# cat otel.conf
[[inputs.http_listener_v2]]
  ## Address and port to host HTTP listener on
  service_address = ":9090"

  ## Paths to listen to.
  paths = ["/api/v1/write"]

  ## Data format to consume.
  data_format = "prometheusremotewrite"

#  [inputs.http_listener_v2.tags]
#  telemetry = "skyline"

Regards,

Henrik