Plugins 〉cPacket Utility Bundle
cPacket Utility Bundle
cPacket Grafana Plugin
Built to work with the cPacket cClear product, this plugin includes a collection of dashboards for network observability, a Packet Analytics Collector Panel to collect network traffic and a Packet Capture Panel to download PCAP for inspection in tools like Wireshark. This plugin will not function fully without a cPacket cClear.
Dashboards
The collection of dashboards observe protocols across all layers including network administrative protocols, data exchange and video or market data feeds. In addition to monitoring packets and bytes of the whole traffic stream at the IP layer, we inspect protocol specific metrics and events for TCP, DNS, HTTPS, DHCP, ICMP, PIM, IGMP, ESP, RTP, Market Data and much more.
With these provided dashboards, an administrator can track and monitor their networks by domain, by VLAN, by CIDR, by custom labels mapped to specific IPs, protocol and/or ports. When an IP or IP pair is known, you can go straight to the troubleshooting dashboards. Otherwise, our drilldown workflow starts from high level information discovery, to locating any specific issue, and, eventually, looking into a specific IP or IP conversation in a specific protocol within a small time window.
We hope this is enough to identify most issues, but if not, the raw packets of the traffic can be downloaded for further inspection in Wireshark.
Packet Collector Panel
The Packet Collector Panel collects packet statistics by network layers and protocols for a specified IP/CIDR, write them to the database and become available for the dashboards provided.
Packet Download Panel
The Packet Capture Panel downloads raw packets into files that can be opened by Wireshark.
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Grafana Cloud Free
- Free tier: Limited to 3 users
- Paid plans: $55 / user / month above included usage
- Access to all Enterprise Plugins
- Fully managed service (not available to self-manage)
Self-hosted Grafana Enterprise
- Access to all Enterprise plugins
- All Grafana Enterprise features
- Self-manage on your own infrastructure
Grafana Cloud Free
- Free tier: Limited to 3 users
- Paid plans: $55 / user / month above included usage
- Access to all Enterprise Plugins
- Fully managed service (not available to self-manage)
Self-hosted Grafana Enterprise
- Access to all Enterprise plugins
- All Grafana Enterprise features
- Self-manage on your own infrastructure
Grafana Cloud Free
- Free tier: Limited to 3 users
- Paid plans: $55 / user / month above included usage
- Access to all Enterprise Plugins
- Fully managed service (not available to self-manage)
Self-hosted Grafana Enterprise
- Access to all Enterprise plugins
- All Grafana Enterprise features
- Self-manage on your own infrastructure
Grafana Cloud Free
- Free tier: Limited to 3 users
- Paid plans: $55 / user / month above included usage
- Access to all Enterprise Plugins
- Fully managed service (not available to self-manage)
Self-hosted Grafana Enterprise
- Access to all Enterprise plugins
- All Grafana Enterprise features
- Self-manage on your own infrastructure
Installing cPacket Utility Bundle on Grafana Cloud:
Installing plugins on a Grafana Cloud instance is a one-click install; same with updates. Cool, right?
Note that it could take up to 1 minute to see the plugin show up in your Grafana.
Installing plugins on a Grafana Cloud instance is a one-click install; same with updates. Cool, right?
Note that it could take up to 1 minute to see the plugin show up in your Grafana.
Installing plugins on a Grafana Cloud instance is a one-click install; same with updates. Cool, right?
Note that it could take up to 1 minute to see the plugin show up in your Grafana.
Installing plugins on a Grafana Cloud instance is a one-click install; same with updates. Cool, right?
Note that it could take up to 1 minute to see the plugin show up in your Grafana.
Installing plugins on a Grafana Cloud instance is a one-click install; same with updates. Cool, right?
Note that it could take up to 1 minute to see the plugin show up in your Grafana.
Installing plugins on a Grafana Cloud instance is a one-click install; same with updates. Cool, right?
Note that it could take up to 1 minute to see the plugin show up in your Grafana.
Installing plugins on a Grafana Cloud instance is a one-click install; same with updates. Cool, right?
Note that it could take up to 1 minute to see the plugin show up in your Grafana.
For more information, visit the docs on plugin installation.
Installing on a local Grafana:
For local instances, plugins are installed and updated via a simple CLI command. Plugins are not updated automatically, however you will be notified when updates are available right within your Grafana.
1. Install the Application
Use the grafana-cli tool to install cPacket Utility Bundle from the commandline:
grafana-cli plugins install The plugin will be installed into your grafana plugins directory; the default is /var/lib/grafana/plugins. More information on the cli tool.
Alternatively, you can manually download the .zip file for your architecture below and unpack it into your grafana plugins directory.
Alternatively, you can manually download the .zip file and unpack it into your grafana plugins directory.
2. Enable it
Next, log into your Grafana instance. Navigate to the Plugins section, found in your Grafana main menu.
Click the Apps tabs in the Plugins section and select the newly installed app.
To enable the app, click the Config tab. Follow the instructions provided with the application and click Enable. The app and any new UI pages are now accessible from within the main menu, as designed by the app creator.
If dashboards have been included with the application, they will attempt to be automatically installed. To view the dashboards, re-import or delete individual dashboards, click the Dashboards tab within the app page.
Changelog
v4.0.10 - 2023-11-08
<ul> <li>Initial release. </li></ul>
v4.1.0 - 2023-11-20
<ul> <li>Set home dashboard as part of dashboard imports. </li> <li>Dashboard updates and fixes.</li> <ul> <li>Set all dashboards to be readonly</li> <li>Add 5 tuple conversation panels to IP conversation dashboards</li> <li>Adjust dashboards to accommodate schema enhancements</li> <li>Update visualiazation styles</li> <li>Update and reorganize panels</li> <li>Fix navigation links</li> </ul> </ul>
v4.1.2 - 2023-12-12
<ul> <li>Update flow dashboards to work with schema changes in the flow database. </li> <li>Set default table metric selections to a minimum number instead of all. </li> <li>Break IP conversation dashboard into a 4 tuple and a 5 tuple dashboards.</li> <li>Graph and table visualization updates.</li> <li>Fix some dashboard links, datasource and measurement references.</li> </ul>
v4.1.10 - 2024-03-13
<ul> <li>Dashboard bug fixes </li> <li>Add 5 new dashboards. </li> </ul>
v4.2.0 - 2024-04-03
<ul> <li>Dashboard bug fixes </li> <li>Add 2 new dashboardsto bring in new workflows in working with application, vlans and tapped locations. </li> </ul>
v4.2.1 - 2024-04-04
<ul> <li>Fix application selection on navigating from Application Overview to Application Hosts. </li> <li>Remove unnecessary row repetition for Host Analysis. </li> </ul>
v4.3.0 - 2024-04-09
<ul> <li>Update dahsboards and fix dashboard bugs. </li> <li>Update Home page to show new workflows. </li> <li>Add cClear Plugin Management UI page. </li> <li>Update cPacket Logo image. </li> </ul>
v4.3.1 - 2024-04-10
<ul> <li>Remove default values for dashboards. </li> <li>Add error handling when fetch request errors out instead of returning a response object. </li> </ul>
