μMon: Stupid simple monitoring (2022)
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μMon: Stupid simple monitoring (2022)
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#3Not bad. I like KISS concepts. I personally run old Cacti instance for monitoring here. Not that simple as uMon, but not very complicated either. And even wrote
cacti_con CLI like graph viewer, to see specific port of that fat 100+ ports campus switches I had at work :)
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#4This really speaks to me - rrdtool is criminally underutilized. Great work!
I did something different but in a similar vein for one server network. We had Seq already deployed for log monitoring so instead of setting up a separate network/node/app health monitoring interface I configured everything to regularly ping seq with a structured log message containing the needed data that could be extracted and graphed with seq’s limited oob charting abilities in the dashboard. Not perfect, but simpler.
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#5I really like the idea behind μMon. It reminds me of when software was simpler. I remember using a program called "Everything" by voidtools. It was small but could search a lot of files quickly. Nowadays, some projects use big tools like Elasticsearch just to search a few things. Some even use PostgreSQL, a big database, for small tasks. I wish more software would keep things simple.
Re: μMon: Stupid simple monitoring (2022)
#6I really like the idea behind μMon. It reminds me of when software was simpler. I remember using a program called "Everything" by voidtools. It was small but could search a lot of files quickly. Nowadays, some projects use big tools like Elasticsearch just to search a few things. Some even use PostgreSQL, a big database, for small tasks. I wish more software would keep things simple.
“Everything” is a must have for me. It’s shocking that Windows doesn’t come with local search that works.
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#7Looks more or less like munin...
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#8I really like the idea behind μMon. It reminds me of when software was simpler. I remember using a program called "Everything" by voidtools. It was small but could search a lot of files quickly. Nowadays, some projects use big tools like Elasticsearch just to search a few things. Some even use PostgreSQL, a big database, for small tasks. I wish more software would keep things simple.
“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
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#9I 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.
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#10I do run Grafana + InfluxDB at home and I agree it’s not trivial to setup. Grafana in particular makes creating informative, easy to read graphs/dashboards a PhD worthy endeavor.
Yet, I run some hobby projects that collect data and this setup is absolutely perfect for it. I even challenged myself to use SSL for the InfluxDB server (run small CA).
Also, I use slack-based alerting through Grafana, for example if a disk would fill up, or something is down.
So it’s really about what your needs are.
And often, basic metrics about systems like CPU usage, load or network traffic doesn’t tell you anything useful or actionable.