Meraki, Meraki, let's see how this goes For all that we love, there are so many woes For starters the monitoring, someone please tell us why Resource usage isn't available, via SNMP nor API Speaking of monitoring, we just know the devs wanna Write a Telegraf plugin for clean integration with Grafana If that's too far a stretch, as these asks tend to be Then maybe an output to InfluxDB? While DevOps integration has us in a bit of a funk Can we talk about local port changes from access to trunk? Sometimes there's a world where we can't get online And end up frustrated with the use of our time Most times without reason we can make a good hearted bet That things get resolved after a "did you restart it yet?" We'd love to see values for send and receive On light that comes through on all SFPs But we're happy to trade that lack of a feature For giving us the resources to find a good teacher Alas while such things keep us hopeful and waiting Let's not discount that Meraki is a great thing The platform has helped us unlock self-service For operators and engineers that were otherwise nervous Meraki, Meraki, let's see how that went Overall we're really happy, it's money well spent
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