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my setup and I'm looking for new ideas, I've been using Cockpit for some years and some of the plugins are really outdated (ZFS for example) and others are completely broken (docker-compose).

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I'm a huge fan of Netdata, very configurable and monitors just about anything you could want. Great interface and alerts too - https://www.netdata.cloud/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months 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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I was looking for something free that I could host on my machine but thanks, I didn't know about it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh that's neat, will take a look! Can you run it on docker?