Yeah I think how you
set up Grafana would be of interest to the forum. Mikrotik has dropped Dude for V7 & there aren't a lot of "free" data/graphing tools. I know Grafana has it's own timeseries database it
could use, however in my look at a few months back that looked rather complex to setup.
Have you see @Jonte's Splunk's support?
viewtopic.php?t=179960
He's thought a lot about the data to capture and how to present it, might give you some ideas for Grafana.
In terms of what to graph, the "accounting data" is likely generically useful, e.g.
https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:IP/Accounting - n.b. that this does not work on V7. @Jonte solve the missing data collection via enabling /ip/kid-control – why I suggest taking a look at his work since there are some subtleties in how to
collect the right data, and what data you have drives what's possible to graph.
My only problem with @Jonte's work is it requires the rather expensive Splunk (which is free, but no alerting in free version). So we've been testing this via the
IoT package with to
AWS Timestream, which then include a Grafana interface. So know Grafana works. But the AWS way isn't cheap, nor "free", so we limit our data collection to manage the costs. Why I'm also interested in how you setup Grafana locally