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It monitors any server you add to it and it can install a daemon that collects metrics for when you are offline. I keep it running to monitor our servers.
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It's quite nice.
How is this better than Prometheus?
It lacks about 99% of the things that Prometheus can do, which is probably what you want for simple up/down healthy/not-healthy indication on a single box.
"curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/leodeim/vpsmon/main/instal... | sudo bash" lol nope. i thought we all grew out of this crap?
"curl -sL https://... | sudo bash"
Now you won't be able to uninstall it if the repo ever goes black...
How is this better than Prometheus?
This is a single system effort and at 5MB RAM is rather tiddly and surely counts as minimal overhead. It could probably send the metrics to Prom. or make them available for scraping with minimal extra effort but I think that should be left as an exercise for the interested reader.
The thing about gathering metrics is you have to be careful that the gathering/processing system doesn't drown out the thing you are measuring!
If anybody is looking for alternatives, I’m a very happy user of Bezel ( https://beszel.dev ) on my home lab servers including a Raspberry Pi Kubernetes cluster and TrueNAS. Highly recommend.
Cool. I went another way for monitoring my servers and built a local macOS app instead of installing the monitoring dashboard on the server itself. https://kitaso.app/ It monitors any server you add to it and it can install a daemon that collects metrics for when you are offline. I keep it running to monitor our servers.
If anybody is looking for alternatives, I’m a very happy user of Bezel ( https://beszel.dev ) on my home lab servers including a Raspberry Pi Kubernetes cluster and TrueNAS. Highly recommend.