Grafana for homelab
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TDex96 · 2023-11-04 16:47

Hey guys!

I'm a confused a little bit. I want to setup a good monitoring and
logging system in my homelab. I have several VMs on a Proxmox host.
Dev VM, nginx, haproxy, mysql, galera, k8s, mongo, etc. I saw this
Grafana cloud option. Is it worth it? The free plan is it enought for
a homelab, or better if i host myself the grafana, loki, prometheus?
If yes, do you have a good boilerplate for that?

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Ryantjeh · 2023-11-04 17:07

I made an ansible role to do just this. It will setup a clean new
server with:

* Grafana
* Prometheus
* Node\_exporter
* Loki
* Promtail

It's modular so you can decide yourself what you do and do not want to
setup. It's only been tested for RHEL based systems tho... I mostly
use Almalinux in my homelab.

[https://github.com/imrein/ansible-
monitoring](https://github.com/imrein/ansible-monitoring)

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_nix-addict · 2023-11-04 17:53

Self host Grafana with Prometheus or InfluxDB.

Hook up your vms with telegraf or just regular old SNMP monitoring

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Do_TheEvolution · 2023-11-04 20:06

>I saw this Grafana cloud option. Is it worth it?

Why going that way when you can first try local deployment in docker?

>If yes, do you have a good boilerplate for that?

[got this guide](https://github.com/DoTheEvo/selfhosted-apps-
docker/tree/master/prometheus_grafana_loki)

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Tripsyou · 2023-11-05 14:49

Try Netdata before