Running services, network usage, memory usage, bandwidth, disk I/O, successful logins, whether the thing is even alive, etc…
So far my only method has been “hope and pray”.
How do you monitor your servers?
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4 daysI have a robust monitoring system for my Jellyfin server, been running for the last few years. Checks in periodically, at least once per 24 hours and notifies me if it’s down. Doesn’t use any electricity, but does consume a good amount of Cheerios and mac & cheese.
- Scott@sh.itjust.worksEnglish4 days
Does this monitoring system also happen to be a dependent on your taxes?
Indirectly. But as another commenter pointed out, it balances out with the tax rebates.
- 3 days
I plan to perhaps, just maybe, I am not sure, to try self-hosting an email server. But I’ll need a good uptime.
Although I am really scared about security.- bertlewirth@lemmy.worldEnglish3 days
Well, it’s a good learning experience. But…… don’t. Good luck getting around the major email providers’ smart screen shit. It’s probably not gonna happen. I tried a few years ago, and even microslop couldn’t figure out why their shit screen crap wouldn’t allow my emails. It’s not in there best interest to fix it. So they don’t. But it’s worth doing it in the short term to learn how to do it. Teaches you about email, spf, dkim etc. which actually does translate to real world skills. I used what I learnt setting it up in my real life job.
- Dultas@lemmy.worldEnglish3 days
Yeah, email is one of the more annoying things to self host. Google rejects mine because my ISP has all their non static IPs on block lists (even though my IP hasn’t changed once since I’ve been with them it’s still not “static”, can’t change the reverse DNS) and I’m not paying 150% more a month for a business account to get a static IP. I ended up just using a free email relay. Still had to setup SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and all that jazz still.
- InFerNo@lemmy.mlEnglish3 days
Been running one for many years, mostly issue-free. Had to request whitelists way in the beginning, but things turned out ok.
Check out this super great guide. https://workaround.org/ispmail-trixie
- curbstickle@anarchist.nexusEnglish4 days
Well I used to use VGA for my monitors, now its mostly displayport.
Seriously though, prom+Loki+alloy+a few other things to Grafana, with alerting in grafana.
- frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish4 days
I pay a group of schoolchildren to refresh a group of browser tabs and yell if anything isn’t responding.
There are plenty of previous threads with recent answers if you search.
- lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
Uptime Kuma! For HDDs I have them report their “ping” as percentage full
- lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.worldEnglish3 days
Sure! In Uptime Kuma, add a monitor with type
Push. It gives you a URL with a unique token, and the monitor goes into “down” state if nothing calls that URL within the heartbeat interval. Then have a cron (or a systemd timer or whatever) run this on the machine with the drive every 5 or 10 minutes:use=$(df --output=pcent /mnt/yourdrive | tail -1 | tr -dc ‘0-9’) curl -fsS -G “http://your-kuma:3001/api/push/TOKEN --data-urlencode “status=up” --data-urlencode “msg=${use}% used” --data-urlencode “ping=${use}”Pingis of course meant to be response time, but Kuma will graph any number you toss in, so you get a “filled” chart for the drive. I also sendstatus=downonce usage passes a threshold. And if the box itself should fall over for some reason, the missing check-ins trigger the alert too.(I typed this quick on my phone, so please double-check and probably don’t blindly copy-paste)
- 3 days
I notice something stopped working, or someone in the household notices.
Then I go fix it.
And the best time to notice that the backups weren’t working is when you need access to the backup. 😅
- 3 days
Backups? In this economy?
But I need to get something working. I am about to move to VaultWarden and that makes me very nervous.
I run a vaultwarden container since forever and it’s really smooth. All updates went through just fine, never had an issue with it.
- pHr34kY@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
It’s running the private DNS for my phone. If it goes down, I realise quite quickly.
- dimjim@sh.itjust.worksEnglish4 days
My primary monitoring system is Beszel, but since I just migrated from VMs to LXCs it can’t properly see the memory/CPU usage, so it just checks for disk usage and liveliness. Home assistant with Proxmox & Dockhand integrations gives me the rest of my monitoring needs.
- sakphul@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish3 days
I am also using Beszel after using checkmk. For me checkmk was way too complicated (but is also way more powerfull) to setup and maintain propperly. So I switcheed to beszel because it is much easier and good enough for my use case which is:
- Is the thing running at all?
- Disk full?
- CPU, network, etc. on full throttle for some strange reason?
- send me a mail if somethings wrong
Besides that I don’t need anything. The only thing missing is SNMP support to check switches, routers and AP’s.
- 4 days
I use naemon (nagios fork) and grafana Loki Prometheus influxdb
I usually just walk down the hall and move the mouse. I don’t really need remote monitoring. 😅
