telegraf/plugins/inputs/wireguard

Wireguard Input Plugin

The Wireguard input plugin collects statistics on the local Wireguard server using the wgctrl library. It reports gauge metrics for Wireguard interface device(s) and its peers.

Configuration

# Collect Wireguard server interface and peer statistics
[[inputs.wireguard]]
  ## Optional list of Wireguard device/interface names to query.
  ## If omitted, all Wireguard interfaces are queried.
  # devices = ["wg0"]

Metrics

• wireguard_device

  • tags:
    • name (interface device name, e.g. wg0)
    • type (Wireguard tunnel type, e.g. linux_kernel or userspace)
  • fields:
    • listen_port (int, UDP port on which the interface is listening)
    • firewall_mark (int, device's current firewall mark)
    • peers (int, number of peers associated with the device)

• wireguard_peer

  • tags:
    • device (associated interface device name, e.g. wg0)
    • public_key (peer public key, e.g. NZTRIrv/ClTcQoNAnChEot+WL7OH7uEGQmx8oAN9rWE=)
  • fields:
    • persistent_keepalive_interval_ns (int, keepalive interval in nanoseconds; 0 if unset)
    • protocol_version (int, Wireguard protocol version number)
    • allowed_ips (int, number of allowed IPs for this peer)
    • last_handshake_time_ns (int, Unix timestamp of the last handshake for this peer in nanoseconds)
    • rx_bytes (int, number of bytes received from this peer)
    • tx_bytes (int, number of bytes transmitted to this peer)

Troubleshooting

Error: operation not permitted

When the kernelspace implementation of Wireguard is in use (as opposed to its userspace implementations), Telegraf communicates with the module over netlink. This requires Telegraf to either run as root, or for the Telegraf binary to have the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.

To add this capability to the Telegraf binary (to allow this communication under the default user telegraf):

$ sudo setcap CAP_NET_ADMIN+epi $(which telegraf)

N.B.: This capability is a filesystem attribute on the binary itself. The attribute needs to be re-applied if the Telegraf binary is rotated (e.g. on installation of new a Telegraf version from the system package manager).

Error: error enumerating Wireguard devices

This usually happens when the device names specified in config are invalid. Ensure that sudo wg show succeeds, and that the device names in config match those printed by this command.

Example Output

wireguard_device,host=WGVPN,name=wg0,type=linux_kernel firewall_mark=51820i,listen_port=58216i 1582513589000000000
wireguard_device,host=WGVPN,name=wg0,type=linux_kernel peers=1i 1582513589000000000
wireguard_peer,device=wg0,host=WGVPN,public_key=NZTRIrv/ClTcQoNAnChEot+WL7OH7uEGQmx8oAN9rWE= allowed_ips=2i,persistent_keepalive_interval_ns=60000000000i,protocol_version=1i 1582513589000000000
wireguard_peer,device=wg0,host=WGVPN,public_key=NZTRIrv/ClTcQoNAnChEot+WL7OH7uEGQmx8oAN9rWE= last_handshake_time_ns=1582513584530013376i,rx_bytes=6484i,tx_bytes=13540i 1582513589000000000