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Section 2 · Choose and set up an integration

Monitoring network devices

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SNMP integration

The SNMP integration monitors devices that speak SNMP, such as switches, routers, and firewalls. Grafana Alloy polls those devices remotely. The device must support SNMP v2c or v3.

What it’s forMonitoring network interfaces, device health, and hardware status
Under the hoodPolls devices via SNMP v2c or v3, using each device’s MIBs (the metrics it exposes), including Cisco, Juniper, and Mikrotik

Metrics collected

The integration polls each device for these metric groups:

  • Interfaces: Traffic, errors, status per port
  • Device: CPU, memory, uptime
  • Hardware: Temperature sensors and power-supply status

What to know

This integration offers:

  • Prebuilt dashboards: overview, fleet overview, logs
  • Prebuilt alerts: interface status, device health
  • Alloy polls the device remotely over SNMP

Documentation

View the SNMP integration documentation.