Structured Logging and Prometheus Exports for Wireguard sessions

wg-monitor.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Wireguard logging and monitoring tool.

Logs the following events along with the peer state in JSON format to stdout:
- Peer connected (= successfull handshake after period of no handshakes)
- Peer disconnected (= no handshake for longer than 5 minutes)
- Peer roamed (= source IP of the peer changed)

Additionally, the tool exposes a Prometheus-compatible monitoring endpoint
on port 9000 that exports the following metrics:
- `wireguard_sent_bytes_total`: Bytes sent to the peer (counter)
- `wireguard_received_bytes_total`: Bytes received from the peer (counter)
- `wireguard_latest_handshake_seconds`: Seconds from the last handshake (gauge)


Requires Python >=3.7, but no additional libraries.

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from __future__ import annotations


import argparse
import http.server
import json
import re
import socketserver
import sys
import subprocess
import threading
import time
from datetime import datetime
from http import HTTPStatus
from typing import Any, List, Mapping, MutableMapping, NamedTuple, Optional, Tuple
from pathlib import Path


# Regular expression to parse friendly names for peers
PEER_NAME_PAT = re.compile(
    r"\[Peer\]\n# (?P<name>.+?)\nPublicKey = (?P<pubkey>.+?)\n", re.MULTILINE
)


class MetricsHandler(http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
    def log_request(self, *args, **kwargs):
        """ Dummy logging handler that just does nothing. """
        pass

    def do_GET(self):
        """ Return Prometheus metrics. """
        self.send_response(HTTPStatus.OK)
        self.send_header("Content-Type", "text/plain; version=0.0.4")
        self.end_headers()
        self.wfile.write("\n".join(export_metrics()).encode("utf8") + b"\n")


class RemotePeer(NamedTuple):
    """ State of a remote Wireguard peer. """

    device: str
    name: Optional[str]
    public_key: str
    remote_addr: Optional[str]
    allowed_ips: Tuple[str]
    latest_handshake: Optional[datetime]
    transfer_rx: int
    transfer_tx: int

    @classmethod
    def parse(cls, namemap: Mapping[str, str], *columns) -> RemotePeer:
        """ Parse a RemotePeer from a `wg show all dump` line. """
        dev, pub, _, remote_addr, ip_list, handshake_ts, bytes_rx, bytes_tx, _ = columns
        return cls(
            device=dev,
            name=namemap.get(pub),
            public_key=pub,
            remote_addr=remote_addr if remote_addr != "(none)" else None,
            allowed_ips=ip_list.split(","),
            latest_handshake=datetime.fromtimestamp(int(handshake_ts))
            if handshake_ts != "0"
            else None,
            transfer_rx=int(bytes_rx),
            transfer_tx=int(bytes_tx),
        )


def get_friendly_names() -> Mapping[str, str]:
    """ Parse human-readable name for peers from the Wireguard config. """
    ifaces = (
        subprocess.check_output(["wg", "show", "interfaces"]).decode("utf8").split()
    )
    name_map: MutableMapping[str, str] = {}
    for iface in ifaces:
        cfg = Path(f"/etc/wireguard/{iface}.conf").read_text()
        name_map.update((key, name) for name, key in PEER_NAME_PAT.findall(cfg))
    return name_map


def log_json(msg: str, peer: RemotePeer, **kwargs):
    payload = peer._asdict()
    if peer.latest_handshake is not None:
        payload["latest_handshake"] = peer.latest_handshake.isoformat()
    print(
        json.dumps(
            {
                "@timestamp": datetime.now().isoformat(),
                "message": msg,
                **payload,
                **kwargs,
            }
        )
    )


def get_peer_states() -> List[RemotePeer]:
    """ Get the state of all remote peers from Wireguard. """
    name_map = get_friendly_names()
    wg_out = subprocess.check_output(["wg", "show", "all", "dump"]).decode("utf8")
    rows = [l.split("\t") for l in wg_out.split("\n")]
    return [RemotePeer.parse(name_map, *row) for row in rows if len(row) > 5]


def is_peer_connected(last_handshake: Optional[datetime], timeout: int) -> bool:
    if last_handshake is None:
        last_handshake = datetime.fromtimestamp(0)
    since_handshake = datetime.now() - last_handshake
    return since_handshake.total_seconds() < timeout


def log_wireguard_peers(poll_delay: int, handshake_timeout: int):
    """Poll wireguard peer state and log connections/disconnections in JSON to stdout."""
    peer_state: MutableMapping[str, Tuple[bool, Optional[datetime], Optional[str]]] = {
        peer.public_key: (
            is_peer_connected(peer.latest_handshake, handshake_timeout),
            peer.latest_handshake,
            peer.remote_addr,
        )
        for peer in get_peer_states()
    }
    t = threading.currentThread()
    while True:
        peers = get_peer_states()
        for peer in peers:
            now_connected = is_peer_connected(peer.latest_handshake, handshake_timeout)
            if peer.public_key not in peer_state:
                log_json("New Peer registered", peer, connected=now_connected)
                peer_state[peer.public_key] = (
                    now_connected,
                    peer.latest_handshake,
                    peer.remote_addr,
                )
                continue
            previously_connected, previous_handshake, remote_addr = peer_state[
                peer.public_key
            ]
            if previously_connected and not now_connected:
                log_json("Peer disconnected", peer, connected=now_connected)
            elif not previously_connected and now_connected:
                log_json("Peer connected", peer, connected=now_connected)
            elif previously_connected and remote_addr != peer.remote_addr:
                log_json(
                    "Peer roamed",
                    peer,
                    connected=now_connected,
                    old_remote_addr=remote_addr,
                )
            peer_state[peer.public_key] = (
                now_connected,
                peer.latest_handshake,
                peer.remote_addr,
            )
        # Check if we're stopped
        for i in range(poll_delay * 10):
            if getattr(t, "stop_logging", False):
                return
            time.sleep(0.1)


def export_metrics() -> List[str]:
    """ Export metrics for all registered peers in the Prometheus text format. """
    peers = get_peer_states()
    tx = []
    rx = []
    handshakes = []
    for peer in peers:
        since_last_handshake = datetime.now() - (
            peer.latest_handshake or datetime.fromtimestamp(0)
        )
        info = f'interface="{peer.device}",public_key="{peer.public_key}",allowed_ips="{",".join(peer.allowed_ips)}",friendly_name="{peer.name}"'
        tx.append(f"wireguard_sent_bytes_total{{{info}}} {peer.transfer_tx}")
        rx.append(f"wireguard_received_bytes_total{{{info}}} {peer.transfer_rx}")
        handshakes.append(
            f"wireguard_latest_handshake_seconds{{{info}}} {since_last_handshake.total_seconds()}"
        )
    return [
        "# HELP wireguard_sent_bytes_total Bytes sent to the peer",
        "# TYPE wireguard_sent_bytes_total counter",
        *tx,
        "# HELP wireguard_received_bytes_total Bytes received from the peer",
        "# TYPE wireguard_received_bytes_total counter",
        *rx,
        "# HELP wireguard_latest_handshake_seconds Seconds from the last handshake",
        "# TYPE wireguard_latest_handshake_seconds gauge",
        *handshakes,
    ]


def start_metrics_server(port: int, bind: str):
    """ Start a HTTP server that serves Prometheus metrics in a background thread. """
    httpd = socketserver.TCPServer((bind, port), MetricsHandler)
    try:
        httpd.serve_forever()
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        return


def main():
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
        description=__doc__, formatter_class=argparse.RawTextHelpFormatter
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        "--poll-delay",
        dest="poll_delay",
        action="store",
        default=30,
        type=int,
        help="Period in seconds between polling of Wireguard state.",
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        "--handshake-timeout",
        dest="handshake_timeout",
        action="store",
        default=300,
        type=int,
        help="Minimum period in seconds between handshakes to consider a peer disconnected.",
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        "--metrics-port",
        dest="metrics_port",
        action="store",
        default=9000,
        type=int,
        help="Port to export the Prometheus metrics endpoint on.",
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        "--metrics-bind",
        dest="metrics_bind",
        action="store",
        default="0.0.0.0",
        type=str,
        help="Address to bind the metrics endpoint to.",
    )
    args = parser.parse_args()

    # Check if the user running the scripts is permitted to access the Wireguard state
    try:
        get_peer_states()
    except PermissionError:
        print("The tool needs to be run as the root user.")
        sys.exit(1)

    # Start logging and metrics endpoint
    logger_thread = threading.Thread(
        target=log_wireguard_peers, args=(args.poll_delay, args.handshake_timeout)
    )
    logger_thread.start()
    start_metrics_server(args.metrics_port, args.metrics_bind)
    logger_thread.stop_logging = True
    logger_thread.join()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Which license is this gist under? Can I reuse It tot another project freely with modifications and add a link to this gist as credits?

Added an MIT license, thanks for asking!

Better like this. Thanks.

Firstly, thanks for your work.

We need the monitor part for IsardVDI project.
We can copy and modify it like https://gitlab.com/isard/isardvdi/-/merge_requests/491/diffs#73c263e105e1d49efcaf607f1240221a8fa5a79c

But I think would be better that we can contribute in this code to make usable for us and help to maintain it. What do you think about create a project instead of manage it via this gist?

I honestly didn't plan to do much more work on this, it works very well for us internally and I thought I'd just share it with the world without taking on the burden of maintaining yet another open source project, I'm neglecting too many as it is already 😅
But you're welcome to simply create a proper project of your own with the code and expand and maintain it there if that works better for you!

OK, thanks for your honesty.

Thanks for sharing
When I run the code and change the IP address and port number, I get the following error:

    start_metrics_server(args.metrics_port, args.metrics_bind)
  File "./Wireguard.py", line 226, in start_metrics_server
    httpd = socketserver.TCPServer((bind, port), MetricsHandler)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/socketserver.py", line 452, in __init__
    self.server_bind()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/socketserver.py", line 466, in server_bind
    self.socket.bind(self.server_address)
OSError: [Errno 99] Cannot assign requested address

When i telnet to the IP and Port number, session opened (Prometheus is OK)

Have you tried changing the listening address (--metrics-bind, defaults to 0.0.0.0) or the port (--metrics-port, defaults to 9000)? Looks like a problem in your environment, it seems that you can't bind to 0.0.0.0:9000

get_friendly_names() uses a hard coded path to the config file. wg has a built in function for printing the current config like so:
wg showconf <interface>
I noticed that this is a more stable and portable method to do it, when setting up a system based on FreeBSD, where the default config file location is not in /etc/wireguard/
Hope this is useful to someone.

also there is a repo with this functionality now: https://github.com/MindFlavor/prometheus_wireguard_exporter