Show HN: Homelab Monitoring Setup with Grafana
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Show HN: Homelab Monitoring Setup with Grafana
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Re: Show HN: Homelab Monitoring Setup with Grafana
#2Hey everyone, this is a post I've been working on the past few months about setting up my own monitoring stack with Grafana for my home server.
I'd love your feedback on how this process could be easier for me, some resources on learning the Grafana query languages, and general comments.
Thanks for taking the time to read + engage!
Re: Show HN: Homelab Monitoring Setup with Grafana
#3This confirms to me what I suspected when I was trying to determine whether to host my own Grafana stack or use the Grafana Cloud free tier - that I'd end up spending a ton of time fiddling with a constellation of services I didn't actually care about that I could spend on the projects and services I do care about.
I've not found it too hard to stay within the limits of the free tier. The 10 dashboards limit is the main one that actually constrains me, but I just put more stuff on each dashboard and live with the scrolling. The free retention is not great but it's good enough for my purposes.
Re: Show HN: Homelab Monitoring Setup with Grafana
#4This confirms to me what I suspected when I was trying to determine whether to host my own Grafana stack or use the Grafana Cloud free tier - that I'd end up spending a ton of time fiddling with a constellation of services I didn't actually care about that I could spend on the projects and services I do care about. I've not found it too hard to stay within the limits of the free tier. The 10 dashboards limit is the m…
It's more moving part than it should be, but it's not so bad - I set up an equivalent locally in one evening. Sure beats keeping my private server logs off-site.
Re: Show HN: Homelab Monitoring Setup with Grafana
#5This confirms to me what I suspected when I was trying to determine whether to host my own Grafana stack or use the Grafana Cloud free tier - that I'd end up spending a ton of time fiddling with a constellation of services I didn't actually care about that I could spend on the projects and services I do care about. I've not found it too hard to stay within the limits of the free tier. The 10 dashboards limit is the m…
Alternatively the 3 chosen tools to ship metrics and logs (CAdvisor, promtail, node-exporter) could be replaced with an all-in-one tool such as Vector or Telegraf.
If you wanted to slim it down further, Netdata accomplishes what those 3 tools and Prometheus can do in a really nice UI.
If the poster hosted those services in a single node k3s or something, the kube-prometheus-stack helm chart is able to deploy a lot of those tools easily.
Re: Show HN: Homelab Monitoring Setup with Grafana
#6I'm in the process of building out a Grafana stack (Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Mimir, Grafana) for my day job right now.
...and also for one of my side projects, OSRBeyond.
It's easy to get overwhelmed by all the moving pieces, but it's also a lot of _fun_ to set up.
Re: Show HN: Homelab Monitoring Setup with Grafana
#7This confirms to me what I suspected when I was trying to determine whether to host my own Grafana stack or use the Grafana Cloud free tier - that I'd end up spending a ton of time fiddling with a constellation of services I didn't actually care about that I could spend on the projects and services I do care about. I've not found it too hard to stay within the limits of the free tier. The 10 dashboards limit is the m…
> This confirms to me what I suspected when I was trying to determine whether to host my own Grafana stack or use the Grafana Cloud free tier - that I'd end up spending a ton of time fiddling with a constellation of services I didn't actually care about that I could spend on the projects and services I do care about.
This. Although it can be fun to learn, I've done that, got the t-shirt (literally from a conference)
Re: Show HN: Homelab Monitoring Setup with Grafana
#8I'm in the process of building out a Grafana stack (Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Mimir, Grafana) for my day job right now. ...and also for one of my side projects, OSRBeyond. It's easy to get overwhelmed by all the moving pieces, but it's also a lot of _fun_ to set up.
Ditto. I've recently just completed a migration from Thanos to Mimir, and I've found that its much easier to operate and administrate. Still stuck on Elastic for logs but I'm slowly convincing developers Loki can be just as effective.
Re: Show HN: Homelab Monitoring Setup with Grafana
#9This confirms to me what I suspected when I was trying to determine whether to host my own Grafana stack or use the Grafana Cloud free tier - that I'd end up spending a ton of time fiddling with a constellation of services I didn't actually care about that I could spend on the projects and services I do care about. I've not found it too hard to stay within the limits of the free tier. The 10 dashboards limit is the m…
IIRC grafana cloud requires to use their importer which was a no-start for me.
Also 14 days retention is not useful for home, I want to know temperature and power stats from last winter, not from last 2 weeks.
Even the "first paid" tier contains only 13 months of retention
I just used VictoriaMetrics all-in-one binary for home stuff + grafana as visualisation
Re: Show HN: Homelab Monitoring Setup with Grafana
#10Just push to github and people will contribute the rest for you. Easy!