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Simpler alternative to prometheus-alertmanager and/or graphana? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Prometheus-alertmanager and graphana (especially graphana!) seem a bit too involved for monitoring my homelab (prometheus itself is fine: it does collect a lot of statistics I don't care about, but it doesn't require configuration so it doesn't bother me).

Do you know of simpler alternatives?

My goals are relatively simple:

get a notification when any systemd service fails
get a notification if there is not much space left on a disk
get a notification if one of the above can't be determined (eg. server down, config error, ...)

Seeing graphs with basic system metrics (eg. cpu/ram usage) would be nice, but it's not super-important.

I am a dev so writing a script that checks for whatever I need is way simpler than learning/writing/testing yaml configuration (in fact, I was about to write a script to send heartbeats to something like Uptime Kuma or Tianji before I thought of asking you for a nicer solution).

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[–] SuperiorOne@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I'm currently using InfluxDB + Telegraf + Grafana combination to monitor Linux systems and k3s pods. It's basically same as Prometheus, but InfluxDB uses push model, which makes it easier to develop tools for collecting custom time series data.

For alerts and dashboards, I think Grafana is the simplest and most hassle free solution available at the moment.