I know dashboards are super trendy, but I’d love to hear from those who are not using them. I personally use FreshRSS to keep track of as much as possible, along with Uptime Kuma and plain old bookmarks. Perhaps there is a better overview solution, but I also love filtering what I see to not feel overwhelmed. or spammed, by information.
Users, monitoring your services for free since internet exists
Does dockge count as a dashboard?
'Cause I use that to quickly check on what’s running, what’s stopped. Then I do most of my mainenance in a terminal, via SSH to the server.
I monitor everything with xymon, I get emails when there’s a problem. Works like a charm.
I have just reduced the number of services to the couple I actually use, which I mostly remember exist. I have my own domain, so each service is <service>.mydomain.tld
Same for me. I use most of my services multiple times a week, so I find out pretty quickly if one isn’t working.
Same here 🙂 Last 3 times, things have broken because zfs raid on usb-connected DAS is not a great idea 😅😅
Even though Level1Tech said it works 😶🫣 https://youtu.be/GmQdlLCw-5k from 11:11 . Maybe terramaster use bad usb chipset.
I used a hodge-podge of chinesium parts and leftover drives to create a DAS system that hooks up to an HBA via DAC. I’m actually kinda surprised how stable it’s all been.
I’m not, really. I run docker-compose and it runs. That’s it.
I want to believe I’m a half step ahead with lazydocker
I don’t know how you guys function without some sort of visual. I will forget everything I’m running if it’s not on a dashboard of some sort. That’s not a maybe - it’s guaranteed. Because it’s happened before.
Surely, if you forget it’s even running, you aren’t using it, and it doesn’t matter if it stops running? (With a couple of obvious exceptions like automated backups, etc)
It was often the automated things that I completely forgot about. I have ADHD, so if it’s not accessible in a reasonable way where I don’t have to always google specific commands to find basic info on my own machine, then it gets lost in the memory hole. I know that a service is running, but would forget what it is.
Kubernetes with
- helm
- the Kubernetes version of compose files
- fluxcd
- manages the helm releases
- renovate
- scans my github kubernetes repo for dependencies and creates pull requests for updates
- helm
If something goes down my kids will be a more immediate and annoying alerting tool than anything I’ve used professionally.
Seconded…
service still up = no problem
Can’t access service = problem, better ssh inSimple as
ssh only after a reboot doesn’t solve the problem, of course
Well, I saw in to reboot, so.
If a service falls in a server and no one is around to hear it, does it actually matter?
let us learn quantum mechanics
Well yeah, it means the system can’t keep torrentin’ stuff!
Restart-always
Then avoid looking at your log files
Great way to find services you really don’t need to be running.
Arch packages. All services have systemd integration.
If I had time to make dashboards, I wouldn’t waste it making dashboards. Most of the stuff I have just works without a lot of attention, and that’s the way I like it.
I just wait for someone to scream if it breaks.
I tried portainer for a while, but it was almost useless to me, as I’d always end up in the command line anyway. So I dropped that and any other dashboard idea.
FreshRSS to keep track of as much as possible, along with Uptime Kuma and plain old bookmarks
https://charity.wtf/2021/08/09/notes-on-the-perfidy-of-dashboards/
Graphs and stuff might be useful for doing capacity planning or observing some trends, but most likely you don’t need either.
If you want to know when something is down (and you might not need to know), set up alerts. (And do it well, you should only receive “actionable” alerts. And after setting alerts, you should work on reducing how many actionable things you have to do.)
(I did set up Nagios to send graphs to Clickhouse, plotted by Grafana. But mostly because I wanted to learn a few things and… I was curious about network latencies and wanted to plan storage a bit long term. But I could live perfectly without those.)
I’ll notice it’s down when I try to access it and it doesn’t work. If it’s not down, there is nothing to manage 🙃
I have documentation if I need to see everything at a glance. I don’t need a live-updating dashboard for that.
