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Re: Show HN: Homelab Monitoring Setup with Grafana

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Post by prabhatsharma » Sat, Jun 10, 2023, 12:20 AM UTC

dracyr wrote: post #29

danwee wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It's easy to get overwhelmed by all the moving pieces Exactly my thoughts! Isn't there something (open source and as good as Prometheus+Grafana) that doesn't have as many moving parts as the stack used by OP? I can imagine there are many use cases for that: from side projects (homelabs) to small startups that don't have huge distributed systems, but still need monitoring (without relying on third-parties). Ideally,…

I think there's nothing currently that combines both logging and metrics into one easy package and visualizes it, but it's also something I would love to have. Vector[1] would work as the agent, being able to collect both logs and metrics. But the issue would then be storing it. I'm assuming the Elastic Stack might now be able to do both, but it's just to heavy to deal with in a small setup. A couple of months ago I…

You should try OpenObserve. It combines logging, metrics and dashboards (and traces) in one single binary/container

Re: Show HN: Homelab Monitoring Setup with Grafana

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Post by prabhatsharma » Sat, Jun 10, 2023, 12:20 AM UTC

prabhatsharma wrote: post #81

dracyr wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think there's nothing currently that combines both logging and metrics into one easy package and visualizes it, but it's also something I would love to have. Vector[1] would work as the agent, being able to collect both logs and metrics. But the issue would then be storing it. I'm assuming the Elastic Stack might now be able to do both, but it's just to heavy to deal with in a small setup. A couple of months ago I…

You should try OpenObserve. It combines logging, metrics and dashboards (and traces) in one single binary/container

https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve

Re: Show HN: Homelab Monitoring Setup with Grafana

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Post by Breza » Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 3:53 PM UTC

oaktowner wrote: post #41

BrandoElFollito wrote: post #35

I self host for years about 30 services, out of these 3 are vital (bitwarden, home assistant and pihole). I work in IT, I am a geek so I tried a few monitoring systems and wrote two myself. Then I realized that I have self-sustaining, 24/7 monitoring agents: wife and children. I gave up trying to have the right stack and just wait for them to yell. Seriously: it works great and it made me wonder WHY I am trying to mo…

Reminds me of the (possibly apocryphal) monitoring that was in place when Healthcare.gov was launched: they had a TV tuned to the news, and the news would tell them whenever the site crashed!

Oh hey, that was basically my job! After getting out of grad school, I worked overnight for an HHS contractor writing media summaries for the Secretary. Every night, we would gather all the news stories about the topics HHS told us they wanted to track. At 6:00am, we'd publish the Secretary's briefing and at 7:30am we'd publish the org-wide briefing. To this day, I possess more trivia about the Healthcare.gov launch than I will ever need for any conceivable reason.

Re: Show HN: Homelab Monitoring Setup with Grafana

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Post by artisin » Tue, Jun 13, 2023, 8:36 PM UTC

zokier wrote: post #65

artisin wrote: post #56

I went down the Grafana rabbit hole, and without a doubt, it's a fantastic tool. It can handle just about any kind of data you throw at it, and when it comes to visualizing time series data, it's second to none. That said, it's a slog to set up and configure, but once finished, I had a beautiful dashboard for my home media server, and life was good. Unfortunately, a few months later, I was forced to upgrade and lacke…

Is there way to self-host the netdata "cloud"?

Unfortunately, no. At the same time, you don't need their "cloud" to use or run an instance of netdata. From what I gather, it's more or less intended to help monitor multiple instances of netdata on different machines. When I first installed netdata, I initially thought it required the use of their cloud to store historical metrics, but this is not the case. You just need to configure the dbengine, as I mentioned in my post, and you'll be good to go without their cloud.