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Monitoring Homelab.. The final battle (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by ferreiras2018@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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I have tried Nagios, zabbix, netdata, grafana and all the possible combination of Monitoring system... but still cannot find anything like PRTG.. am i the only one suffering by this? i mean the functionality of PRTG and the installation process are unbetable.

No conf file, no database or apache or rules, is just simple as it should be.

All the rest seems to be hard to maintain, condfigure and make it work.

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[–] AliensProbably@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Depends what systems you've got in your homelab, I guess. Are you using vmware with lots of VMs? Or k3s / microk8s / nomad with lots of containers? Do you have a config management tool that lets you deploy monitoring agents consistently and easily with new VMs/containers?

It's been more than a decade since I've run up prtg, but I recall the functionality was pretty basic - it's little wonder it's easy to setup.

I've used each of the four tools you mentioned you tried. Nagios and Zabbix are good, but not well suited for microservices, very host-centric view of the world. Netdata is also host-centric I think. Grafana is just a visualization tool - what were you feeding that with - Zabbix and Nagios? Sounds like you need yourself some opentelemetry (or compatible equivalent).

[–] SirLagz@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Zabbix can be used for Microservices but it requires a lot of configuration for it