My awesome Grafana Dashboard for OPNSense!
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In this video, I'll show you how to build a custom Grafana monitoring dashboard for your OPNSense firewall from scratch. We'll dive into PromQL basics, explore the difference between counters and gauges, and create beautiful visualization panels for CPU, memory, disk, network traffic, and firewall statistics. If you've ever struggled to find the perfect pre-built dashboard or wanted to understand how to craft your own custom queries and styles, this tutorial will guide you through the entire process step by step.
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