Add location to connection stats

[imclint21]

Hi,

I create a mikrotik-exporter (https://github.com/hypeproxy/mikrotik-active-connections-exporter) for get connection stats but I just saw that you have this feature, maybe you could add location stats like City, Country and Latitude/Longitude, would be nice to create a heatmap on Grafana by example.

Just and idea!

Regards

[akpw]

@imclint21 this is an interesting suggestion. just to be sure, what is your idea on the output format?

Currently, the metric output could look smth like:

mktxp_connection_stats{dhcp_name="PB Eth", src_address="10.60.30.149", dst_addresses="142.250.110.188:5228(tcp), 74.125.133.188:5228(tcp), 64.233.184.188:5228(tcp), 64.233.167.188:5228(tcp), 172.217.17.10:443(tcp), 74.125.206.188:5228(tcp), 66.102.1.188:5228(tcp), 74.125.71.188:5228(tcp)", routerboard_address="10.30.25.1", routerboard_name="MKT-RT"} 28.0

simply adding additional location information for each connection inside a single label would be impractical, so what is your idea on making it more digestible / efficient?

[imclint21]

I'm not sure about the ideal output, but the goal is to create a heatmap on grafana!