Yeah that’s kind of what I was originally thinking to do too.
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daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I’m in the process of building a monitoring system with grafana stack.
Right now I have monitoring panels for some common metrics and logs. I am yet to set up alerts.
The idea being that if something goes wrong some metric will grow up unexpectedly, for instance network traffic. And I would get a notification.
What I’m still considering is what would I consider abnormal behavior, so I could set up the thresholds.
ueiqkkwhuwjw@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is exactly how my network is setup. All devices log to my syslog server which I feed into a database with a self made python app, and Grafana goes from there. It’s been running nonstop for like 5 years without any problems, so I’d say your in the right path!
It’s also helped me catch things like:
ueiqkkwhuwjw@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Very interesting. Thanks for your input :)