I’ll second this. Prometheus + Grafana is what I’m using now, but you can definitely add more extensions/monitors to get far more detail, like Loki which was suggested above.
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Hercules@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I think prometheus + grafana might be what you are looking for. In combination with loki grafana can also be used for viewing log messages.
N1ghtstalk3r@lemmy.world 5 months ago
onlinepersona@programming.dev 5 months ago
Do both have to run on the host machine or can a remote machine execute the probes (over ssh or something).
miau@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
Grafana is just the frontend, its a dashboard for your different data sources Prometheus is the “database”, it scrapes data from your endpoints over http
Im_old@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Absolutely this, nothing else is required. Well, maybe alertmanager if you want to receive alerts
farcaller@fstab.sh 5 months ago
and swap Prometheus for VictoriaMertics, or your homelab ram usage becomes Prometheus ram usage.