Simple server monitoring
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speedypaddy · 2023-10-30 13:20

I need some advice on monitoring. I need a simple tool that will
monitor servers (Linux) - just basic stuff disk, cpu usage, ram. Then
i need to set alerts on in and send them trough ntfy or telegram. What
the best (and easiest) route to go nowadays? Promethues + Graffana? I
had a look in Zabbix and looks to heavy for my usage. I would be glad
for recommendations. I used to use Icinga2 and Nagios, but I would
like to recommend a newer solution.

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Twigglett_ · 2023-10-30 13:37

Have a look at checkmk.

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mrmclabber · 2023-10-30 13:48

Netdata will likely be the easiest.

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neulon · 2023-10-30 15:42

Check MK should do the job however is a bit of a pain Deploy on K8s

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Plain-Tangerine3715 · 2023-10-30 15:48

I setup just a simple script on the hosts to pull the data I wanted
and send it to an influxdb endpoint.  influxdb serves both as a db and
as a gui that includes monitoring dashboards.  I haven't used the
alerting myself but I see it has those capabilities.  It was dead
simple to setup and get working.  I wanted something lightweight on
the client side, and easy to run on the server side, this fit that
bill.

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CelebrationDizzy1541 · 2023-10-30 19:24

I use Glances…

https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/

… together with Home Assistant. Also has a Rest API.

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adamshand · 2023-10-30 20:09

There's nothing simple or easy about Zabbix, Nagios, Prometheus or
Grafana.  For simple, I'd suggest:

https://mmonit.com/monit/  (been around forever, "just works")
https://github.com/flo-at/minmon   (new, looks good, haven't used)

If you want something that can also do network monitoring, you could
use Uptime-kuma with something like wirestat.

https://github.com/ssddanbrown/wirestat

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hYjbyDBkdhIE8D4KDL2I · 2023-10-31 20:06

Xymon. It's simple, oldschool, proven.

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creativve18 · 2023-11-06 03:57

You can look into OpManager by ManageEngine. The solution offers
commendable server monitoring.