jorgedlcruz/veeam-backup-gcp-grafana

Token-based authentication and Network Error: Bad Request(400) errors

khalid-gh opened this issue · 9 comments

khalid-gh commented

Hello Jorge, great work on this dashboard. I have a few questions regarding some issues I'm facing.

Firstly, is there the possibility of replacing veeamPassword="YOURVEEAMBACKUPPASS" with authorization/refresh tokens as opposed to a plain text password in the script so as to be more secure?

Secondly, when I run the script, I get the following response:

Writing veeam_gcp_sessions to InfluxDB
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
X-Influxdb-Build: OSS
X-Influxdb-Version: 2.1.1
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 19:51:17 GMT

When I subsequently checked InfluxDB, the data appears to be there. However, when I attempt to view it in the Grafana dashboard (after configuring InfluxDB as a data source, and importing the dashboard with the ID), I'm met with the following error on every panel:

Error updating options: Network Error: Bad Request(400)

Any assistance you can provide is greatly appreciated

grafana-dashboard
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jorgedlcruz commented

Hello,
Will give it a try to see if we can make more secure the whole auth thing. You can always have a dedicated user for this purpose, and of course secure at the network layer, meaning opening the API TCP Port to the InfluxDB Server alone, not ideal I know.

By the message you are sharing, the Script is sending the data correctly to InfluxDB, which is nice! However, your Grafana config of the InfluxDB Datasource is not right.

You can give it a try, if you go to the Explore option, on Grafana. Let me know. Thanks for trying it.

khalid-gh commented

Thanks for getting back to me. I've checked the configuration of the InfluxDB data source and it seems to be successful, however I still get the same errors. In the Explore option, I get the following error when trying to run a query: InfluxDB Error: database not found

data-source

jorgedlcruz commented
khalid-gh commented

Hello,

I've now managed to successfully configure the connection between InfluxDB and Grafana, and can now see the data visualised in the dashboard. However, there are two panels with no data, and they happen to be the panels which I'm most interested in.

That leads me on to my next question, which is: is there any way I can set up an alerting rule on those panels (specifically the Job Historical Information panel), so that I can send those alerts to Slack when a backup job fails?

Thanks!

job-history

jorgedlcruz commented
khalid-gh commented

Hello,

I've checked and I still get the same response as before:

Writing veeam_gcp_sessions to InfluxDB
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
X-Influxdb-Build: OSS
X-Influxdb-Version: 2.1.1
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2022 17:14:52 GMT

Both the empty panels are measuring veeam_gcp_sessions and unfortunately in InfluxDB, the response is No values found in the current time range

Also eagerly looking forward to that blog post as I need to receive alerts for failed backup jobs.

Thanks

influxdb

jorgedlcruz commented
khalid-gh commented

I've tried all the different time ranges in Grafana and still no luck. Data is available for the other measurements in InfluxDB to present in Grafana, but I'm not sure why there is no data available for veeam_gcp_sessions in InfluxDB.

jorgedlcruz commented