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my setup and I’m looking for new ideas, I’ve been using Cockpit for some years and some of the plugins are really outdated (ZFS for example) and others are completely broken (docker-compose).

  • aksdb@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    6 months ago

    My own server? YOLO

    At work? Grafana, KOBS, Victoria Metrics, Jaeger, OpsGenie, …

    • summerof69@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      My own server? YOLO

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

    • AlphaAutist@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 months 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?

  • its_me_gb@feddit.ukEnglish
    7·
    6 months 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.

    • farcaller@fstab.shEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      Try VictoriaMetrics. Basically the same feature set as Prometheus, but so much more resource friendly for homelab scale. I store some metrics for 12 months now, because it’s easy.

    • OSH@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      6 months 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.

  • SorteKanin@feddit.dkEnglish
    4·
    6 months ago

    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.

  • Concave1142@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    6 months 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.

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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    MQTT Message Queue Telemetry Transport point-to-point networking
    SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access
    SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
    TLS Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL
    VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

    5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 16 acronyms.

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  • CronyAkatsuki@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyzEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    Used to not monitor at all, but after setting up crowdsec I got completeky into prometheus + grafana system resource and security monitiring on my dedicated hetzner server.

    I also keep uptime kuma on another cheap vps to monitor the states of websites directly for issues and I have seted up watchtower to send ntfy notifications on updates so I can know an update is the one fucking everything up.

    Recently also setup restuc backups so I made it so I also get backup health check logs as ntfy notifications on my phone, which really helps me keep everything runnig.

    What I really need to also do is create prometheus/grafana alerts for additional things to get notifications on my phone for them also ( like when crowdsec starts to randomly not get any more acqusitions, so I have to restart it. Once passed over a week before I looked at grafana and caught that ).

    Note: this is all a hoby, I also don’t host anything at home out of a couple reasons, most important being internet and hardware is expensive af here so it’s simply cheaper for me to play around with vps’s and hetzner dedicated servers.