Meraki

Meraki

Monitor your network devices and topology information through the Meraki API

Extension

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Overview

This extension uses Meraki Dashboard APIs to fetch device topology, metadata and metrics.

https://github.com/meraki/dashboard-api-python

Use cases

Availability monitoring of Meraki network devices.
Additional organization, network and device metadata.
Network data collection without having to poll individual devices.

Get started

Activate the extension in your enviroment using the in-product Hub. Provide the required configuration settings such as the Meraki API token

Details

This extension calls the following Dashboard Organization APIS:

Topology and metadata for Organizations, Networks and Devices.
- Organizations: get-organizations
- Networks: get-organization-networks
- Devices: get-organization-devices
Metrics
- Device + Power supply status: get-organization-devices-statuses
- Device (MX) Uplink loss and latency: get-organization-devices-uplinks-loss-and-latency

Compatibility information

The extension makes use of the Meraki Dashboard API Python Library: meraki

FAQ

Q: What is the Custom Metric Usage of this extension?

(1 * num_devices)                           // Device status
+
(1 * num_devices * avg_num_power_supplies)  // PowerSupply status
+
(2 * num_mx_devices)                        // Uplink metrics
+
3                                           // Configuration monitoring counts

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Extension content

Content typeNumber of items included

screen logs cards

1

metric metadata

10

screen chart groups

2

screen layout

4

dashboards

1

generic type

5

generic relationship

5

screen entities lists

4

Feature sets

Below is a complete list of the feature sets provided in this version. To ensure a good fit for your needs, individual feature sets can be activated and deactivated by your administrator during configuration.

Feature setsNumber of metrics included

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Meraki API Connectivity	meraki.api.connectivity	Was Dynatrace able to poll the Meraki API without errors?	Percent

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Meraki Device Power Supply Status	meraki.powersupply.status	Current status of the Meraki Device Power Supply: available, connected, disconnected, powered, powering or standby	Count

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Meraki Uplink Loss Percent	meraki.uplink.lossPercent	Meraki MX Device uplink loss percentage	Percent
Meraki Uplink Latency	meraki.uplink.latencyMs	Meraki MX Device uplink latency (milliseconds)	MilliSecond

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Meraki Monitored Organizations	meraki.monitoring.organizations	The number of organizations that Dynatrace is monitoring through Meraki	Count
Meraki Monitored Networks	meraki.monitoring.networks	The number of networks that Dynatrace is monitoring through Meraki	Count
Meraki Monitored Devices	meraki.monitoring.devices	The number of devices that Dynatrace is monitoring through Meraki	Count

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Meraki Uplink Sent Bytes	meraki.uplink.sent	Meraki MX Device uplink bytes sent	Byte
Meraki Uplink Received Bytes	meraki.uplink.received	Meraki MX Device uplink bytes received	Byte

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Meraki Device Status	meraki.device.status	Current status of the Meraki Device: online, alerting, offline or dormant	Count

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To have more information on how to install the downloaded package, please follow the instructions on this page.

ReleaseDate

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Collect uplink usage metrics: Meraki API
Dashboard and unified analysis screen updates

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Improved handing of rate limits (429 errors)
Support the ingest of devices without a 'name' property set
- The extension will use the 'serial' property as the device name in such cases

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Bug fix: strip out other unsupported special characters from Meraki Device and Network names.

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Bug Fix: Remove tab characters from property values
Bug Fix: Correctly filter on enabled feature sets

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Metric ingest fix - strip newlines from metric dimensions (device.address)

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Fix metric ingest for names with characters that need to be escaped (quote: " and backslash: \ )

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v1 extension release
Metric collection, metadata topology
Query Meraki Dashboard Organization APIs
Filtering based on name, network / device tags and/or device type

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