Best way to monitor stuff on a local basis? (minimal software
required?)
reddit / selfhosted

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Akirapearl · 2023-09-28 09:31

Hi there!

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So, at the time of writing i only have one server which is self
hosting photoprism for image visualization/wallpaper vault of some
sort.

Even though I am planning on installing more stuff, I would like to
know how can I monitor some "minimal" metrics the simplest way
possible.

* CPU/RAM usage
* Storage available
* Up/Download speeds, as in internet speed test

I don't really need something too complex, I can take rid of the first
two points via htop and df -h command or like gotop, but i would
prefer to have sort of a browser GUI i can connect to.

I am aware of systems as grafana, but i wonder if that's the main go-
to service, or there is something better for a rather smaller scope,
as I do not intend to get too much into homelabs (just the bare
minimum or like learning-oriented tasks i can make with my current
setup)

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ch4ngn01 · 2023-09-28 09:55

I use Glances, https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/ I'm not sure if it
monitors bandwidth but I'm sure it does.

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sternbear87 · 2023-09-28 10:43

netdata

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nik_h_75 · 2023-09-28 10:47

Homepage (docker) with glances is a real easy way to get basic stats.

https://github.com/benphelps/homepage#information-widgets

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NikStalwart · 2023-09-28 11:00

[netdata](https://github.com/netdata/netdata) is what you are looking
for. Has a local (web) dashboard. Can scale when you need to, isn't
super resource hungry. You can then use it as a prometheus collector
when you put on the big boy pants. I would not go down the
prometheus+grafana route for your first server though, unless you
really want to tinker with it.

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opensrcdev · 2023-09-28 14:34

InfluxDB is an all-in-one solution, except you need to run Telegraf to
gather & send metrics to it.

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octahexx · 2023-09-28 18:00

Librenms

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michael_sage · 2023-09-28 19:22

I really rate openitcockpit. It's agent is really good and works with
push or pull and it also supports nagios plugins and nrpe

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Plain-Tangerine3715 · 2023-09-29 04:31

I have 4 hosts, and it was great to run influxdb (which includes the
ui!) in a docker container on one host and write a little script to
scrape and send data from each host to influxdb.  I had been thinking
about this project for a couple months and was done in a couple hours,
perfect combo for me!

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creativve18 · 2023-10-11 05:39

OpManager