What do y’all use to monitor many linux servers?
2 years ago by shootwhatsmyname to c/linux
I’m hoping to find something that:
Edit: Thanks everyone, love this community! I went with Beszel, lots of other good recommendations too
this is the way
I use my family. It has a simple volume based alert for when services are offline.
Beszel. Probably the easiest tool of all the mentioned in this thread.
Seconded. My only complaint (which this might already be a feature I haven't found yet) is it doesn't seem to support multiple drives. But yes, it is shit easy to set up and has a beautiful UI
Totally possible:
I no longer have any complaints about Beszel. Thank you!
I'm working on making it easier to install on Debian systems by creating a Debian package (and eventually a repo): https://github.com/henrygd/beszel/pull/497
Went with this one, thanks! Lots of other good recommendations in the thread too though
CheckMk user here via omd.
I'm looking for something else after the upgrade.
Black interface isn't pretty for me and the old interface was "meh too hard so we ditched it".
One half of the project split has a shit supply chain and just doesn't meet the bar for upgrade requirements.
The other half of the project split is a mess to config in an automated desired-state setup. It's all edge-triggered manual bullshit. NO. ENOUGH.
I miss 1.2 .
Any chance you'd be willing to share playbooks or point me toward any resources you used?
I use Ansible to manage config across all my workstations/servers but I haven't gotten around to automating log shipping yet or aggregating system metrics.
Zabbix is pretty quick and easy. Many different services built in for sending notifications, along with your own custom (including webhooks). Fully customizable dashboard as well so you can add whatever you want/need at a glance.
I stopped by to say the same thing. I use Zabbix to monitor everything
You can monitor multiple machines via the host switcher menu at the top-left of the screen: Multiple Machines
My cockpit experience has been unilaterally dreadful. I'm glad you're getting value out of it.
We just recently started using zabbix. Open source and has a web interface to get a central view that can be accessed from wherever we allow it.
So far it's been great but er have had little time and so far have used only 1% of what it can do
Still, I'd recommend it. Super easy to install, seems light weight, has clients for any os you'd need, can send out alerts (we currently use pushover for that)
Nagios. It does depend on what you mean by monitor though. Nagios is good at telling you that "service A on host B" is down" but less useful for looking at things like performance trends. I particularly like being able to setup dependencies between services, so I get the alert for the root cause, and not all of the services that have gone down because of it.
Netdata is exactly what you're looking for. It's basically an all in one monitoring and and alerting suite that collects and analyzes data, and provides a gorgeous web dashboard for you to view.
You can also manually replicate this using Prometheus, Grafana and other tools, but that requires a much bigger effort to set up.
Edit: There's a public demo instance where you can try everything out: https://frankfurt.netdata.rocks/
The five node limit is a dealbreaker for me too. I'm also annoyed the free version doesn't have any real built in options to secure data by default. I followed a TechnoTim tutorial to get the NetData/Prometheus/Grafana stuff setup but it was too limited and required too much manual effort.
That would be a truly dark day. I never liked their centralized dashboard functionality, it always seemed cumbersome to me.
I hope that doesn't happen, but I guess if it does, I will really need to find a different monitoring tool.
send alerts via http request
On this specifically you might want to check ntfy as it's quite easy to setup and can give you notifications on pretty much any device (including iOS) via your own infrastructure all the way down to basics e.g. SSE. That mean you can subscribe to a topic, e.g. servers per physical location, alert level, etc and only get the ones you need.
same
Serverbox. https://github.com/lollipopkit/flutter_server_box
I remember liking Sensu. We used it a little bit at my previous job, but I didn't get a chance to work with it much. I can't remember what we specifically used it for though. Sorry, wish I had more info for you.
Not exactly what you're looking for, but I like using proxmox
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Node exporter, Prometheus and grafana
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