Submitted 5 months ago by kiol@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world
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 my what I see to not feel overwhelmed or spammed by information.
Never used a dashboard… I just manage my services on the cli with plain docker commands.
Can you hear the fan? If no, it’s probably fine.
Oh man, I thought it was “just” me 🤣 To be fair, the light counts as well (Qnap).
I call an api in technitium to register dns for all services when they are instantiated, and route everything through an nginx reverse proxy - Sonarr.internal.tld for example
I don’t use any kind of monitoring Or dashboards
Set of cron jobs that check services, then send a Matrix message if there’s an issue.
For the cron jobs, I pipe stderr to another script that watches those and does the same.
If all fails, and internet is unavailable and the router crashes, a Pi will toggle a relay, cutting and resupplying power.
If Plex doesn’t add new shows/movies/music then I take a look at my services that should be adding stuff for Plex to serve up. That’s pretty much it these days.
I was using homepage but it seems to cause docker to die a LOT on my server.
I just use Homepage as a bookmark/landing page so I remember what containers/services I have up and running so that I don’t need to check via terminal/portainer. Portainer/docker-compose files for managing services and that’s pretty much it. If I was using a dashboard I feel like I’d be wasting more time on an already time consuming hobby.
Uptime Kuma monitoring anything I care about and notifying me via Matrix, or notifying me via email if it’s Matrix that’s down.
Unraid has a table of the docker containers.
I don’t need metrics or stats. I wouldn’t look at, or care about them anyway. Dashboards feel like tech enthusiast crap. Tech and resources for the sake of having tech. My services are to solve a problem, not look at metrics of.
I just simply dont monitor most things. I do have a few things such as low disk space and failed backups. They are just simple shell scripts that send me an ntfy message when there is a problem.
Bookmarks for linking to services. Grafana for graphs that I only look at if I am curious or looking into when a problem arises. I could use Uptime Kuma if I wanted a simpler solution or notifications.
i am un-admining. free-range artisanal services wherever i happen to drop them. hell i don’t even know what’s running and what’s not until i try to access something.
i manage tech all day so my home tech is nothing but abject chaos and i’m ok with that. i have backups and i can go without if needed.
i am un-admining
Pretty much this. I just manually handle stuff when needed. I already work at IT so this feels quite liberating, the last thing I want is to annoy myself more, and the stuff I manage is not Critical™.
I do have Dashboards in Grafana, but I only use them to look something up. I have Prometheus Alertmanager connected to a Matrix bot that sends me messages when something looks wrong.
docker stats
With that command, I get all the stats I need, no dashboards required.
charity.wtf/…/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 monitor everything with xymon, I get emails when there’s a problem. Works like a charm.
docker ps
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.
service still up = no problem
Can’t access service = problem, better ssh in
Simple 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?
T.ex. syslog : YES! You might need the logs later.
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 something goes down my kids will be a more immediate and annoying alerting tool than anything I’ve used professionally.
I’ve once had a customer whom rang like a second before service went down. ( i Still wish i made it up)
Seconded…
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.
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FreshRSS to keep track of as much as possible, along with Uptime Kuma and plain old bookmarks
Users, monitoring your services for free since internet exists
I use portainer, not sure if that counts as a dashboard?
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 forget what it is.
Joelk111@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I use dashboards pretty often. Considering I’m in America, I use them just about any time I go anywhere, as nearly all automobiles have them.