Observability
from DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 19 Aug 23:16
https://sh.itjust.works/post/65367131
from DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 19 Aug 23:16
https://sh.itjust.works/post/65367131
I run a quite large vps. now and i want to monitor it ive been using beszel an uptime kuma, does anyone know a better solution ive tried grafana an prometheous. but it was not as good as i was hoping. i saw netdata on selfh.st does anyone have expierance with that.
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What are you trying to observe? Just the server and applications? Traffic?
Netata will give you just about every metric you could possibly use for a server. However and anecdotally, netdata seems to spawn a ton of zombie processes (github.com/netdata/netdata/issues/20565) which was quite annoying.
If you’re going for server traffic observability , I recommend ntopng. It’s pretty comprehensive.
Depends on what youre trying to track, but prom can track whatever you want and grafana can display it. You may also want log monitoring as well, which you can also feed in - grafana is just display.
The metrics you want to look at are the big question though.
Im mostly looking for traffic uptime and resourses
It seems to me like you don’t really want historic metrics.
Youre not looking for an observability platform, more a resource monitor like btop. Whether its btop.or one of the other variations of top, there are a lot of them with heavy customization options.
I’d recommend starting there to figure out what you want/need.
What would you recommend for historic metrics? Specifically for podman containers.
They are useful for diagnosing recurring crashes.
Btop is my favorite top of all the tops. I run it regularly just to scope how things are processing.
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