Asus Merlin Router with Zabbix Agent

[ColinTaylor]

So, it makes even less sense to run it on the machine you're monitoring/saving the log files to. Yes?

This is perfectly normal practice for these sorts of software monitoring applications. Very common in enterprise networks.

 

[L&LD]

Then they must be also mirroring/forwarding the logging to another machine.

 

[ColinTaylor]

Then they must be also mirroring/forwarding the logging to another machine.

The server processes the information from the agents and typically sends it to some sort of DBMS.

 

[Ranger802004]

Who/why would anyone monitor this in real time? Sounds like an expensive (labor) project.

I like Zabbix and I can see value putting a Zabbix agent on the router for getting live alerts for issues like memory and CPU utilized. You can even monitor processes and services not running.

 

[L&LD]

Is it just when you're monitoring/diagnosing specific bugs/behaviors (and have the knowledge to fix them possibly)? I can't see any normal users using this on a regular basis.

 

[Ranger802004]

Is it just when you're monitoring/diagnosing specific bugs/behaviors (and have the knowledge to fix them possibly)? I can't see any normal users using this on a regular basis.

It's more of an enterprise tool but if someone wants to use it for their personal environment I don't see why not, it's free to use. No it can notify you in realtime of issues such as CPU overloaded and if it resolves itself or memory too full or if a service / process stopped and isn't running. It's fairly easy to set up and the agent is very lightweight.

 

[Markfree]

Is it just when you're monitoring/diagnosing specific bugs/behaviors (and have the knowledge to fix them possibly)? I can't see any normal users using this on a regular basis.

I often use it to monitor Internet usage or outages. I monitor some of the router resources, including temp, as well as some services like Adguard, Conmon and NTPMerlin.
Zabbix keeps a history and can plot some nice graphs, which helps to see some anomalous behavior as well.
The standard Entware implementation of the Zabbix Agent is very lightweight and I believe it has minimal impact on the router.

That's why I created the Asus Merlin Zabbix template.