Comment on Looking for FOSS server monitoring UI
supervent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I know these projects cockpit, netdata and grafana + prometheus.
Comment on Looking for FOSS server monitoring UI
supervent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I know these projects cockpit, netdata and grafana + prometheus.
mrnobody@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Why Grafana + Prometheus? Why do they have to go together?
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 3 weeks ago
Yes. Prometheus isn’t standalone though, it requires agents on all target machines. The go-to is node exporter. It’s really flexible though and there’s agents for lots of different tools, you can monitor everything with it, but the initial setup isn’t suuper easy.
mrnobody@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Someone opened my eyes recently to Yunohost which is a container manager essentially (my understanding) though is based on Debian for the newer versions not actual Docker.
Anyway, I can install Prometheus as well as node explorer, but I think I would only need Prometheus. Node explorer sounds like if I hosted Prometheus on another box and wanted this host to talk to it.
Danitos@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Prometheus is a metric scrapper, it just recollects metrics from either it’s own computer or another one. If you want to monitor something, you also need that something to publish metrics, so they can be scrapped by Prometheus.
Thus if you want to monitor even just a single computer, you need node-exporter to publish the metrics, and Prometheus to gather them. Then you can use Grafana to create beautiful dashboards (or use community’s), and even add alarms to it.