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μMon: Stupid simple monitoring (2022)

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Re: μMon: Stupid simple monitoring (2022)

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Post by dizhn »

xrd wrote: post #16
ahofmann wrote: post #9

I like the concept of simple monitoring. Simple means it is simple to install, simple to maintain and simple to use. For me, this is netdata. Netdata could be much more, but I just install it on whatever machine and never think about it again. And when something is strange on that machine, I go to http://localhost:19999 and look around.

I've been struggling with graphana and netdata looks so much better. Is this a tool where you can boot up the docker app and then connect a bunch of servers into a centralized dashboard? Or, is it better to think of netdata as a dashboard for a single server that permits monitoring of a bunch of processes only on that machine? I'm not sure I understand whether agents can be configured to talk to a dashboard, or if yo…

If you connect your servers to the netdata cloud, you can manage all of them there. (Put into groups etc). As far as I know there is no self hosted solution for this.

https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/configuring/connect-agent-t...

Re: μMon: Stupid simple monitoring (2022)

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Post by beart »

sphars wrote: post #8
dave8088 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“Everything” is a must have for me. It’s shocking that Windows doesn’t come with local search that works.

Microsoft has added basically the same functionality to Power Toys, called Run[0], taking heavy inspiration from Everything. But yeah this should be a built-in utility. [0]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/run

Not quite. Run has plugins but the default file search still uses windows search. However, there is a third party plugin for powertoys run that integrates the everything search service.

Re: μMon: Stupid simple monitoring (2022)

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Post by xrd »

dizhn wrote: post #21
xrd wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been struggling with graphana and netdata looks so much better. Is this a tool where you can boot up the docker app and then connect a bunch of servers into a centralized dashboard? Or, is it better to think of netdata as a dashboard for a single server that permits monitoring of a bunch of processes only on that machine? I'm not sure I understand whether agents can be configured to talk to a dashboard, or if yo…

If you connect your servers to the netdata cloud, you can manage all of them there. (Put into groups etc). As far as I know there is no self hosted solution for this. https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/configuring/connect-agent-t...

Drat. I'm only interested in things I can self host. Back to the drawing board. Thanks for the clarification!

Re: μMon: Stupid simple monitoring (2022)

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Post by xrd »

posix86 wrote: post #23

Why's everyone hating on Grafana? I find it fairly easy to use, it has a good balance between power & simplicity. And with docker you can make it run in seconds.

The difficult thing for me was understanding how to think about and then configure agents. I never could reason about getting the central server up and then connecting nodes to it, whether those nodes were applications or entire servers. The terminology didn't make sense to me and it made me question whether I had the right framing for the purpose of grafana.

Re: μMon: Stupid simple monitoring (2022)

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Post by xrd »

xrd wrote: post #25
dizhn wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you connect your servers to the netdata cloud, you can manage all of them there. (Put into groups etc). As far as I know there is no self hosted solution for this. https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/configuring/connect-agent-t...

Drat. I'm only interested in things I can self host. Back to the drawing board. Thanks for the clarification!

Maybe what I want is nachos?

https://www.nagios.org/

Re: μMon: Stupid simple monitoring (2022)

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Post by synergy20 »

roger_ wrote: post #20

I was recently looking for an ultra minimal monitoring solution for OpenWrt and other lightweight systems (Pi’s, etc.) and was disappointed not to find one that met my needs (negligible CPU, disk space and RAM). I ended up hacking together a shell script to send data to Home Assistant (via MQTT) which runs on pretty much any system that has at least netcat: https://github.com/roger-/hass-sysmon

why not use https://collectd.org/ which is in C and used by openwrt's luci already along with rrdtool, small in size, low on resource, and has so many plugins already?

Re: μMon: Stupid simple monitoring (2022)

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Post by keyle »

posix86 wrote: post #23

Why's everyone hating on Grafana? I find it fairly easy to use, it has a good balance between power & simplicity. And with docker you can make it run in seconds.

No one is "hating" on Grafana. But if you used tools of the past, you'd know how light they were compared to the Grafana/Kibana/Elastic mongrel.

But I should mention that there is nothing "stupid simple" about the solution of the OP. Just look at the install procedure... https://tomscii.sig7.se/umon/

Re: μMon: Stupid simple monitoring (2022)

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Post by tambourine_man »

zacmps wrote: post #13
sphars wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Microsoft has added basically the same functionality to Power Toys, called Run[0], taking heavy inspiration from Everything. But yeah this should be a built-in utility. [0]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/run

Does it read the ntfs journal? Because that's really what makes everything, everything. It makes me wish I used a journaling filesystem on Linux too.

You don’t? What do you run Linux on? The default Ext4 is journaled
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