Monitoring platform

From local observation
to durable visibility.

Equate is a two-plane SNMP monitoring platform. The collector sees the customer network locally; the cloud plane persists and presents the monitoring evidence.

See the architecture

Customer plane

SNMP Collector v2

Poll configured SNMPv2c devices concurrently, detect supported Cisco and Arista profiles, and apply interface selection before telemetry leaves the site.

Local ownership: inventory, discovery, health evaluation, and buffered delivery.
Local-only operations: Bubble Tea TUI and Unix control socket.

Delivery boundary

Secure outbound telemetry

Device, interface, health, and heartbeat events are buffered in SQLite then published via authenticated MQTT/TLS with QoS 1.

Transport outage: polling continues while events remain buffered.
Cloud boundary: no inbound cloud management path is created.

Cloud plane

Monitoring state and dashboard

Ingestion validates, deduplicates, and persists to PostgreSQL. A read-only API supplies the dashboard’s site, device, interface, component, and history views.

Source of truth: PostgreSQL, not MQTT or collector-local state.
Dashboard role: presentation, not device control or health inference.

Health evidence

Critical roots and impacted dependents stay distinct.

Every configured device is polled independently. A direct failure becomes Critical only after its failure threshold. A dependent becomes Unknown only when all configured upstream paths are unavailable.

Temperature can place a reachable device in Warning. CPU, memory, and power are displayed telemetry—not dashboard-side health thresholds.

access-01upstream_device_ids: dist-01

Health reasonupstream_unreachable

Root causecore-01

Primary temperature52.5 °C

Illustrative dashboard data — not a live system.

Build a monitoring view your operators can trust.

Start with collector placement and inventory, then validate the delivery and dashboard path.