How do you monitor your server containers, disks, load…?

Do you use an easy-to-use web interface? Do you do everything via SSH? Or maybe you’ve got a more complicated setup?

I want to change my setup and I’m looking for new ideas, I’ve been using Cockpit for some years and some of the plugins are really outdated (ZFS for example) and others are completely broken (docker-compose).

  • its_me_gb
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    1 year ago

    Node exporter on hosts, OpenTelemetry collector to scrape metrics and collect logs, shipping them to Prometheus and Loki, visualising with Grafana.

    Day job is for an observability platform where we heavily encourage the use of (and also contribute) to the OpenTelemetry collector project, hence my use of it.

    • OSH
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      11 year ago

      Similar setup here with additional exporters like cadvisor for container metrics and other components.

      OpenTelemetry is awesome, but still a very fast moving project. Expect therefore more frequent updates and changes compared to more older and established projects.

  • @zaphod@lemmy.ca
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    211 year ago

    “Huh weird, I tried to use <insert service here> and it’s not working. Welp, guess I better fix it…”

    • @cmeu@lemmy.world
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      81 year ago

      Same been running netdata for years. They’re monetizing now where it used to just be free. Good for them, it’s a great product. And it’s foss

    • Encrypt-Keeper
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      21 year ago

      I love how easy to use NetData is, but when running it on my home servers it destroys their performance lol. Every once in awhile I check in to see if it runs better.

      • ArmoredCavalry
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        11 year ago

        That’s strange, I’ve run it fine on some very underpowered hardware. Are you adding a specific monitoring integration with it, or just out of the box settings?

        • Encrypt-Keeper
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          11 year ago

          Just out of the box. I am usually running it as a container on UnRAID on an x86 machine. It seems primarily to just be a big memory hog when I’ve tried to use it.

          • ArmoredCavalry
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            11 year ago

            Weird! For reference one VM I run on only has 1 GB of memory, and Netdata uses 100-200 MB. Could be something going on with UnRAID though. Definitely some sort of bug I’d think, since normally resource usage should be very low across the board.

    • @pixelscience@sh.itjust.works
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      41 year ago

      Netdata 100%

      It feeds my itch for more data than I know what to do with and it’s presented in one of the cleanest ways I’ve ever seen for so much info.

      • Kuecki Eben
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        81 year ago

        Netdata is free and can be run standalone. Just install it and do not configure the cloud integration. You can see your dashboard on localhost:19999

      • ArmoredCavalry
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        As others stated, you can run and access the interface locally (or setup your own reverse proxy) for free. Their Cloud dashboard is also free for up to 5 nodes. They recently added a flat-rate “Homelab” plan as well, if you want to remove the limit. It’s all quite usable for $0 otherwise though!

  • @rambos@lemm.ee
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    121 year ago

    I just use homepage as my homepage :D

    I can see simple CPU/RAM/storage stats and got widgets for almost all services, one of them is portainer so I can see if any service is stopped (most of them are running in docker). Also few services send notification on error or update

    I know its not really a monitoring tool, but it works well enough for me

  • Toes♀
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    481 year ago

    My clients when they text me the server is down.

    • fatboy93
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      221 year ago

      This has the same energy as my spouse yelling at me because jellyfin went down

      • @Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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        41 year ago

        Or my partners greeting me in the morning “Home assistant went down again, so the lights are all manual”

        Thankfully that one is mostly solved.

  • @Concave1142@lemmy.world
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    81 year ago

    Zabbix for agent / snmp based statistics.

    Uptime Kuma for up/down states with a webhook notification into Discord so I get instant alerts on my phone when one goes down.

    • @summerof69@lemm.ee
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      201 year ago

      My own server? YOLO

      I can’t figure out whether there’s a monitoring tool called YOLO or you don’t monitor anything.

      • @aksdb@lemmy.world
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        191 year ago

        Now I am intrigued to develop one that is called YOLO.

        But just in case: no, I don’t monitor my server. If I notice something not working, I ssh into the machine and check what’s up. I don’t want to deal with another zoo of services for the monitoring part.

    • @AlphaAutist@lemmy.world
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      41 year ago

      This is the first time I’ve heard of Victoria Metrics. It looks like it has a similar use case as Prometheus, is that correct? If so, what made you or your team choose one over the other?

      • @aksdb@lemmy.world
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        21 year ago

        IIRC it had better performance than Prometheus. We also ditched Elasticsearch in favor of ClickHouse to keep up with log ingestion.

        • @scrion@lemmy.world
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          I can second that. We had some really good experiences with ClickHouse and its performance. If it fits the bill, it’s a very nice piece of software.

  • @SorteKanin@feddit.dk
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    Grafana set up to run on the server locally, then I connect to it via SSH forwarding. Then I can view all kinds of metrics in my browser in a neat interface.

    • @IHawkMike@lemmy.world
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      11 year ago

      Adding my vote for Zabbix. It was a bit of a bear to set up and I had to write custom scripts to install the agents with TLS settings that were secure enough for me, but once it’s all set up it’s amazingly easy and intuitive to use and incredibly customizable.

  • @JoeKrogan@lemmy.world
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    Btop and logwatch with logrotate. I use healthchecks to check if the server is unreachable and it notifies me.