The Cisco Meraki integration is in Preview.
Overview
This integration provides comprehensive visibility into your Cisco Meraki Environment by collecting metrics for Network Device Monitoring, Network Event Logs, and Security Event Logs for Cloud SIEM.
Network Device Monitoring
Network Device Monitoring helps ensure the overall health of network infrastructure is up to standard by identifying potential bottlenecks and device configuration errors.
This integration collects metrics for the following devices:
- MR (Wireless Access Points): Track metrics like client count, connection status, and throughput.
- MS (Switches): Monitor switch performance metrics such as port status, traffic, and error rates.
- MX (Security Appliances): Collect metrics on VPN status, firewall rules, and overall device performance.
This integration dynamically pulls in device tags and metadata from Meraki environments to easily drill down into specific device groups, locations, or device types.
Security Event Logs
Security Event Logs alert on events such as intrusion detections, firewall rule violations, and malware threat detections to helps identify and respond to potential security threats.
Create your own rules or leverage the out-of-the-box Cloud SIEM rules for real-time threat detection and incident response.
Network Event Logs
Network Event Logs help network administrators analyze historical network events and troubleshoot issues efficiently.
These logs track the following topics:
- Configuration Changes: Track changes in network configurations to ensure compliance and troubleshoot connection issues.
- Client Associations: Monitor client associations with wireless access points for user connectivity insights.
- Network Health Events: Identify and address issues affecting network health, such as high packet loss on specific switches.
In addition to the recommended monitors included with this integration, additional monitors can be configured to notify administrators of critical events, allowing for proactive network management.
To collect metrics from your Meraki Cloud Controller, configure the SNMP integration with the Meraki Profile.
Setup
Installation
- In the app, open the Meraki integration tile.
- Click + Add Account.
- Choose a name for your Meraki account.
- Add a Meraki API key. Find instructions on how to generate a Meraki API key in the Cisco Meraki Dashboard API.
Generate the Meraki API key
- Go to the Meraki Dashboard.
- Enable API access by going to Organization > Settings > Dashboard API access.
- Go to the My Profile page on the Meraki dashboard to generate the key.
Metric collection
To configure collection of NDM Metrics, an API key is required from Meraki.
Device Tag Filters
Device Tag Filters allow you to specify which devices to monitor
within NDM. You can specify multiple tags by separating them
with a comma. If no tags are specified, all devices will be
monitored.
Log collection
To configure collection of network event logs and security event logs, an API key is required from Meraki.
For more information, see the Cisco Meraki Dashboard API.
Data Collected
Metrics
Data for Meraki devices (MR, MS, MX) in Network Device Monitoring—including network level, device level, uplink level, and interface (switch port) level metrics and tags—are in beta.
Switch level port metrics for port traffic and usage are not available.
Configure the SNMP integration with the Meraki Profile to collect metrics (prefixed snmp. in the following table) from your Meraki devices. Alternatively, create a custom profile to collect additional metrics. Note that metrics prefixed meraki. are collected via the Datadog Meraki integration, enabled using the preceding instructions.
meraki.avgLatencyMs
(gauge) | The average network latency in Milliseconds.
Shown as millisecond |
meraki.clientCount
(count) | The client count per network.
Shown as unit |
meraki.devStatus
(count) | The status of the device.
Shown as unit |
meraki.latencyMs
(gauge) | The latency of an uplink in Millseconds. This is only supported for MX devices.
Shown as millisecond |
meraki.lossPercent
(gauge) | The loss percent of an uplink in a network. This is only supported for MX devices.
Shown as percent |
meraki.powerModuleStatus
(count) | The power module status of a device.
Shown as unit |
meraki.uplinkStatus
(count) | The status of an uplink on a device. This is only for MX, MG, Z series devices in the org.
Shown as unit |
meraki.utilization
(count) | The channel utilization of an AP in a network.
Shown as unit |
meraki.utilization.non_wifi
(count) | The non wifi channel utilization of an AP in a network.
Shown as unit |
meraki.utilization.wifi
(count) | The wifi channel utilization of an AP in a network.
Shown as unit |
meraki.port.status
(count) | The status of a port on a Meraki switch.
Shown as unit |
meraki.devPerformanceScore
(gauge) | The device performance score.
Shown as unit |
snmp.devStatus
(gauge) | The status of the device's connection to the Meraki Cloud Controller
Shown as unit |
snmp.devClientCount
(gauge) | The number of clients currently associated with the device
Shown as unit |
snmp.devInterfaceSentPkts
(gauge) | The number of packets sent on this interface
Shown as packet |
snmp.devInterfaceRecvPkts
(gauge) | The number of packets received on this interface
Shown as packet |
snmp.devInterfaceSentBytes
(gauge) | The number of bytes sent on this interface
Shown as byte |
snmp.devInterfaceRecvBytes
(gauge) | The number of bytes received on this interface
Shown as byte |
Events
The Meraki integration does not include any events.
Service Checks
The Meraki integration does not include any service checks.
Troubleshooting
Datadog sometimes encounters issues accessing Meraki from its servers. Add Datadog’s IPs to your IP address allow list to ensure that crawling works as expected.
Need help? Contact Datadog support.
Further Reading
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