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Prometheus + node/container exporters. + Grafana for dashboards I haven't touched zabbix in years but last time it didn't support very well dynamic scalations. Also all of them are focused on monitoring infrastructure, you need to pay if you want APM or UX.
Enterprise level, for APM I like datadog, much better than NR. For UX we use acoustic tealeef.
I use Proxmox, so I just use the PVE web interface
Used to not monitor at all, but after setting up crowdsec I got completeky into prometheus + grafana system resource and security monitiring on my dedicated hetzner server.
I also keep uptime kuma on another cheap vps to monitor the states of websites directly for issues and I have seted up watchtower to send ntfy notifications on updates so I can know an update is the one fucking everything up.
Recently also setup restuc backups so I made it so I also get backup health check logs as ntfy notifications on my phone, which really helps me keep everything runnig.
What I really need to also do is create prometheus/grafana alerts for additional things to get notifications on my phone for them also ( like when crowdsec starts to randomly not get any more acqusitions, so I have to restart it. Once passed over a week before I looked at grafana and caught that ).
Note: this is all a hoby, I also don't host anything at home out of a couple reasons, most important being internet and hardware is expensive af here so it's simply cheaper for me to play around with vps's and hetzner dedicated servers.
i just have top running through ssh on an xterm window.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| MQTT | Message Queue Telemetry Transport point-to-point networking |
| SSH | Secure Shell for remote terminal access |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption |
| TLS | Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 16 acronyms.
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Um, Proxmox?
I am running everything in docker compose so I've never found a use to it that justifies the waste of power
For the physical hosts / bare metal I use fluentbit, with Loki as the backend. Grafana for visualization and alerts. This gives me utilization metrics and uptime monitoring. The app containers themselves I do not monitor.
I use collectd and graphs on my openwrt router. It can even use data from mqtt-connected thermometers and gather metrics from other collectd instances.
systemd can be used to run whatever notification scheme you would like to use whenever some service fails. Here's an example of how to do it: https://www.baeldung.com/linux/systemd-service-fail-notification