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Looking for the Perfect Dashboard: InfluxDB, Telegraf, and Grafana – Part XXXII (Monitoring Veeam ONE – experimental)

- Written in: opensource, veeam

Greetings friends, today I bring you a new post about Grafana, today’s post is also one of the most special that I have written, since it is an experimental version, and we do not know if this will come to some port, or will be changed in the future.

I am talking about nothing more and nothing less than a Grafana Dashboard for Veeam ONE! Yes, imagine combining all the potential that Veeam ONE has, which already analyzes VMware, Veeam, gives us recommendations, consumption, capacity planning, etc. And put all that data in a beautiful Grafana Dashboard, well that’s what we are going to do today.

Before we start, and in case the experimental is not enough, I want to remind you that this RESTful API of Veeam ONE is considered internal, so its use is not supported by Veeam, use this Dashboard at your own risk.

Veeam ONE Dashboard (experimental)

When we finish the entry we will have something similar to that Dashboard that will allow you to visualize:

Dashboard – Summary

This first dashboard of the series, because I intend to create all the Dashboards that Veeam ONE gives us, contains:

  • Backup Infrastructure Inventory – How many Veeam components we have added to this Veeam ONE.
  • Backup Window – A graph where we find the last 7 days with the Backup, Replica, and NAS job windows.
  • Job Status – A graph where we find the last 7 days with the jobs that have been successful, or that have had a warning or error.
  • Protected VMs Overview – A very complete table showing all our VMs, those that are protected, those that are not, the size of the copies, etc.
  • Top Jobs by Duration – A very complete table where we find our jobs, and the duration of them, with additional information if it is taking more time than normal or not.
  • Top Repositories by Used Space – A very complete table where we find our jobs, and the duration of them, with additional information if it is taking more time than normal or not.

Diagram with all logical components

This post is similar to the previous ones as in this case, we will use a combination of a shell script to collect Veeam ONE metrics using RESTful API and InfluxDB. The design would look something similar to this:As we can see, the shell script will download the metrics from Veeam ONE using the RESTful API, which will send all the data to InfluxDB, from where we can conveniently view them with Grafana.

Download, and configure the veeam_one.sh script

We have almost everything ready, we have one last step, 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 executed from the telegraf server, or influxDB, or any other Linux. We will have to edit the configuration parameters:

veeamInfluxDBURL="YOURINFLUXSERVER" ##Use https://fqdn or https://IP in case you use SSL
veeamInfluxDBPort="8086" #Default Port
veeamInfluxDB="YOURINFLUXDB" #Default Database
veeamInfluxDBUser="YOURINFLUXUSER" #User for Database
veeamInfluxDBPassword="YOURINFLUXPASS" #Password for Database

# Endpoint URL for login action
veeamUsername="YOURVEEAMONEUSER" #Usually domain\user or [email protected]
veeamPassword="YOURVEEAMONEPASS"
veeamONEServer="https://YOURVEEAMONEIP" #You can use FQDN if you like as well
veeamONEPort="1239" #Default Port

Once the changes are made, make the script executable with chmod:

chmod +x veeam_one.sh

We run it, and the output of the command should look something like the following, with no errors:

Writing veeam_ONE_repositories to InfluxDB
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Content-Type: application/json
Request-Id: 9e9c517e-7a11-11eb-8acb-0050569017a8
X-Influxdb-Build: OSS
X-Influxdb-Version: 1.8.4
X-Request-Id: 9e9c517e-7a11-11eb-8acb-0050569017a8
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2021 22:09:25 GMT

If so, please now add this script to your crontab, like for example every 30 minutes, I don’t think our Dashboards are updated more often, but good to download it if so:

*/30 * * * * /home/oper/veeam_one.sh >> /var/log/veeamone.log 2>&1

We are ready to go to the next step.

Grafana Dashboards

I created a Dashboard from scratch by selecting the best requests to the database, finalizing the colors, thinking about the graphics and how to display them, and everything is automated to fit our environment without any problems and without having to edit anything manually. The Dashboard can be found here, once imported, you can use the top drop-down menus to select between Veeam ONE Servers, etc:

Importing the Grafana Dashboard in a simple way

So that you don’t have to waste hours configuring a new Dashboard, and ingesting and debugging what you want, I have already created a wonderful Dashboard with everything you need to monitor our environment in a very simple way, it will look like the image I showed you above. Select the name you want and enter the ID: 13986, which is the unique ID of the Dashboard, or the URL:

With the menus above, we can move between Veeam ONE Servers (yes, this is intended for Service Providers as well): Please leave your comments here, or on GitHub – thanks so much for reading!

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. rbhalla says

    Hi , this is quite interesting. is there a way we could use prometheus instead of influx ?

  2. jorgeuk says

    Hello,
    My bash shell reads the data from the API, and sends it to Influx. So you can probably change that last part and send it to Prometheus on the format you expect. For the dashboard, I am afraid it uses Influx queries, so you will need to redo all the queries 🙂

  3. Dsru Bin says

    This script errors out on me with an http/400 error:
    Writing veeam_ONE_about to InfluxDB
    HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
    Content-Type: application/json
    Request-Id: 28260fec-11a6-11ec-9d7f-0050568ba5de
    X-Influxdb-Build: OSS
    X-Influxdb-Error: unable to parse ‘veeam_ONE_about,voneserver=,voneversion= vone=1’: missing tag value
    X-Influxdb-Version: 1.8.9
    X-Request-Id: 28260fec-11a6-11ec-9d7f-0050568ba5de
    Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2021 19:43:07 GMT
    Content-Length: 97

    {“error”:”unable to parse ‘veeam_ONE_about,voneserver=,voneversion= vone=1’: missing tag value”}

  7. Jhony Hidayat Nasution says

    veeamInfluxDBURL=”YOURINFLUXSERVER” ##Use https://fqdn or https://IP in case you use SSL
    veeamInfluxDBPort=”8086″ #Default Port
    veeamInfluxDB=”YOURINFLUXDB” #Default Database
    veeamInfluxDBUser=”YOURINFLUXUSER” #User for Database
    veeamInfluxDBPassword=”YOURINFLUXPASS” #Password for Database

    # Endpoint URL for login action
    veeamUsername=”YOURVEEAMONEUSER” #Usually domain\user or [email protected]
    veeamPassword=”YOURVEEAMONEPASS”
    veeamONEServer=”https://YOURVEEAMONEIP” #You can use FQDN if you like as well
    veeamONEPort=”1239″ #Default Port

    my questions are: for the input of “YOURINFLUXSERVER” is this using the ” ” or just the http://ipaddress ?
    also it shall be just put =8086 or =”8086″ ? and so on the influxdb=glances or “glances” ? because I set as your recommended but the result was not working:

    [[email protected] /]# sh netapp_ontap.sh
    netapp_ontap.sh: line 43: jq: command not found
    netapp_ontap.sh: line 44: jq: command not found
    netapp_ontap.sh: line 45: jq: command not found
    netapp_ontap.sh: line 46: jq: command not found
    netapp_ontap.sh: line 47: jq: command not found
    netapp_ontap.sh: line 48: jq: command not found
    netapp_ontap.sh: line 49: jq: command not found
    Writing netapp_cluster_overview to InfluxDB
    HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
    Content-Type: application/json
    Request-Id: 0ea4f66d-8d47-11ec-800d-5209b1f6833b
    X-Influxdb-Build: OSS
    X-Influxdb-Error: unable to parse ‘netapp_cluster_overview,clustername=,uuid=,clusterversion=,managementnetwork= versiongeneration=,versionmajor=,versionminor=’: missing tag value
    X-Influxdb-Version: 1.8.10
    X-Request-Id: 0ea4f66d-8d47-11ec-800d-5209b1f6833b
    Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 03:34:46 GMT
    Content-Length: 174

    {“error”:”unable to parse ‘netapp_cluster_overview,clustername=,uuid=,clusterversion=,managementnetwork= versiongeneration=,versionmajor=,versionminor=’: missing tag value”}
    netapp_ontap.sh: line 96: jq: command not found
    netapp_ontap.sh: line 135: jq: command not found
    netapp_ontap.sh: line 225: jq: command not found
    netapp_ontap.sh: line 256: jq: command not found
    netapp_ontap.sh: line 289: jq: command not found
    netapp_ontap.sh: line 323: jq: command not found
    [[email protected] /]#

    ============
    below is the configuration we made up:

    ##
    # Configurations
    ##
    # Endpoint URL for InfluxDB
    netappInfluxDBURL=http://10.254.201.81 #Your InfluxDB Server, http://FQDN or https://FQDN if using SSL
    netappInfluxDBPort=8086 #Default Port
    netappInfluxDB=glances #Default Database
    netappInfluxDBUser=’admin’ #User for Database
    netappInfluxDBPassword=’StrongPassw0rd’ #Password for Database

    # Endpoint URL for login action
    netappUsername=”netapp-harvest” #Your username with privileges to login into the ONTAP
    netappPassword=”netapp123″
    netappAuth=$(echo -ne “$netappUsername:$netappPassword” | base64);
    netappRestServer=10.254.201.210
    netappMetrics=20 #They came in interval of 15 seconds, so 20 will be equal to the metrics of the last 5 minutes. If you want to run your script every 5 minutes, let it like this, if not, change it accordingly.

    Please to solve it.

    Thanks and regards,

    JHony

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