Traditional monitoring of network devices was done by SNMP, however this was resource intensive for the router and slow. In recent years the gNMI interface has evolved into a mature alternative to SNMP. This interface allows users to stream data, at a very high resolution, from routers with a relatively low performance impact on the device. This paradigm shift in collecting monitoring data from devices has the potential to unlock new use-cases in how you could operate your network. When increasing the resolution of network telemetry, operators will need a scalable platform that can handle the increased number of events generated by the devices.
This info-share will showcase a solution to this problem that bundles a number of open-source software solutions to enable high resolution streaming from gNMI capable network devices.
