Wireless network interfaces

Plugin: proc.plugin Module: /proc/net/wireless

Overview

Monitor wireless devices with metrics about status, link quality, signal level, noise level and more.

This collector is supported on all platforms.

This collector supports collecting metrics from multiple instances of this integration, including remote instances.

Default Behavior

Auto-Detection

This integration doesn't support auto-detection.

Limits

The default configuration for this integration does not impose any limits on data collection.

Performance Impact

The default configuration for this integration is not expected to impose a significant performance impact on the system.

Metrics

Metrics grouped by scope.

The scope defines the instance that the metric belongs to. An instance is uniquely identified by a set of labels.

Per wireless device

This scope has no labels.

Metrics:

Metric	Dimensions	Unit
wireless.status	status	status
wireless.link_quality	link_quality	value
wireless.signal_level	signal_level	dBm
wireless.noise_level	noise_level	dBm
wireless.discarded_packets	nwid, crypt, frag, retry, misc	packets/s
wireless.missed_beacons	missed_beacons	frames/s

Alerts

There are no alerts configured by default for this integration.

Setup

Prerequisites

No action required.

Configuration

File

There is no configuration file.

Options

There are no configuration options.

Examples

There are no configuration examples.