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Looking for the Perfect Dashboard: InfluxDB, Telegraf, and Grafana – Part XXII (Monitoring Cloudflare, include beautiful Maps)

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Greetings friends, since 2016 I have been showing you how to get the Perfect Dashboard using Grafana, InfluxDB, and Telegraf, we have come a long way together, and we have seen how to monitor a myriad of critical components, such as SSL, web page responses, VMware vSphere, Veeam, and much, much more.

Today we return to the basics, exploring some of the more visually appealing plugins, and giving it a more personal touch, how it is to analyze Cloudflare’s statistics where we have our blog, personal website, e-commerce, etc. cached.

Note: As the API has been deprecated. Cloudflare now publishes everything by GraphQL, I have corrected the whole script to make it work smoothly.

Once you have finished this tutorial, you will have something similar to this, it is better to give it several days or weeks to see the full potential:

Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana topology monitoring Cloudflare

Although I have already shown you on some occasions the diagram of how the monitoring would be using Telegraf, Grafana, and InfluxDB, I leave you again the diagram, this time monitoring Cloudflare:

Download and configure the script cloudflare-analytics.sh

Let’s download the script that will make all this work, we will download the latest version from the Github repository:

This shell script can be downloaded and run from the telegraf server, or influxDB, or any other Linux. We will have to edit the configuration parameters:

We need two pieces of information from Cloudflare that we can find as follows.

Take the Global API Key

Inside Cloudflare, we will go to the top menu, click on our account: Once there, we’ll go to API Tokens – Global API Key, view

With this, we’ll have our API Key. I have not found any other way of working for now.

Find our Cloudflare Zone ID

To find the Cloudflare Zone ID, from our panel, we’ll select the domain we want and from there if we scroll, we’ll see the Zone ID: We already have our Zone ID too. We will make the script executable with this simple step:

chmod +x cloudflare-analytics.sh

We will make sure we have jq installed, an apt-get install jq or yum install jq if we use CentOS:

sudo apt-get install jq

And when we launch it, if everything went well, we’ll see what happens next:

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Content-Type: application/json
Request-Id: 53d8ecec-8611-11ea-bc44-0050569002da
X-Influxdb-Build: OSS
X-Influxdb-Version: 1.7.10
X-Request-Id: 53d8ecec-8611-11ea-bc44-0050569002da
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 07:00:00 GMT

Besides, it would be nice to put it in the cron to run every day at 9 a.m:

crontab -e
0 9 * * * /home/oper/cloudflare-analytics.sh >> /var/log/cloudflare.log 2>&1

That’s it, we’re going to the next step.

Grafana Worldmap Panel

We will need to have installed the magnificent Worldmap Panel, as simple as from the Grafana server launch:

grafana-cli plugins install grafana-worldmap-panel

And restart Grafana’s service:

service grafana-server restart

And you’re all set.

Grafana Dashboards

I created a Dashboard from scratch by selecting the best requests to the database, finishing off colors, thinking about graphics, and how to display them, and everything is automated so that it fits our environment without any problem and without having to edit anything manually. The Dashboard can be found here, once imported, you will see all the stats:

Import Grafana Dashboards easily

So that you don’t have to waste hours configuring a new Dashboard, and ingesting and debugging you want, I have already created four wonderful Dashboards with everything you need to monitor our environment in a very simple way, you will be like the image I showed you above. Select the name you want and enter the ID: 12167, which is the unique ID of the Dashboard, or the URL:

We’ll have everything popping up without any problem:

That’s all folks, if you want to follow the full Blog series about Grafana, InfluxDB, Telegraf, please click on the next links:

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Comments

  1. Michael Fitz says

    As a heads up, your .sh file has the incorrect filename. You’re missing the second “L” in cloudflare-analytics.sh

  2. Michael Fitz says

    I’m getting an error after trying to load the Grafana dashboard:

    Failed create dashboard model
    undefined is not iterable (cannot read property Symbol(Symbol.iterator))

    Any idea what this is?

  5. Rubens says

    have it working since a couple of weeks, dunno if its a db problem on my side cause requests seems to work just fine…

  6. fsennj46e7ed4363 says

    sudo sh cloudflare-analytics.sh
    cloudflare-analytics.sh: 38: let: not found
    date: invalid date ‘@’
    cloudflare-analytics.sh: 111: declare: not found
    jq: error (at :1): Cannot iterate over null (null)

  8. Franz Senn says

    Hi Jorge – thank you with ./ it worked just fine, Just a general question if dont state a zone ID in the script would it be possible then to pick all data from all zones i have in Cloudflare?

    – also generally spoken thank you for your fantastic work! your instructions saved me many days of trial and error and keep inspiring me to try out new things…

  9. jorgeuk says

    Hello Franz,
    I guess that can be programmed to look at all the zones, but at the moment I am not sure, as the Graph is quite strict to select Zone ID, etc. MY bet is that before you run the other graph calls, you first list all the zones you have access to, and then do a loop of the graphql and all the code, per zone, that should work.

    I am really glad to see that this work helped you!

    Best regards

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