I’ve had issues with my cable internet service lately. I came across this excellent guide from Duckware to troubleshooting cable internet issues and realized my modem had all the information I needed to troubleshoot my connection. Calling the cable company is a complete waste of time. Fortunately I was able to fix it with some insight into what was going on. In my case, it ended up being a loose cable. I simply had to tighten every connection along the way with a simple tool.

In my troubleshooting I was on the hunt for a Prometheus exporter that would get the data from my cable modem, as manually getting it from the modem webpage is painful. The prometheus-moto-exporter was fairly straightforward to set up. I just needed a dashboard to actually view and interpret the data. There was reference to this project but it appears to have been deleted. I eventually found that at some point someone had forked it here. It got me mostly there, but there was a syntax error in the JSON, and it referred to the exported data by a different name. I was able to fix both issues and created my own fork, located here: https://github.com/jimmyface/prometheus-mb8611-dashboard (note: it looks like the original repo made a recent update fixing the quotation problem.)

It works! I now have a quick and easy way to interpret data from my cable modem, and it is beautiful.