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What are your favorite tools for monitoring Linux and individual docker containers? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 8 months ago by Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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CPU/GPU/RAM/Disk usage, logs, errors, network usage, overall status, etc

What do you use/prefer?

Mainly looking for self-hosted web based tools, stuff I can view from a browser; but desktop and CLI apps are welcome too :)

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[–] tko@tkohhh.social 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

CPU/RAM/Disk/Network etc. get written to Influxdb via Telegraf, and visualized with Grafana.

Logging and errors go to Graylog stack (Mongodb, Opensearch, Graylog).

[–] hellfroze@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

CPU/RAM/Disk/Network etc. get written to Influxdb via Telegraf, and visualized with Grafana.

This is my exact setup and I love it (especially in comparison to the prometheus stack which I have to use at work). telegraf is so easy to use and extend. I have my own custom metrics for things like speed of my home internet connection (runs speedtests every hour), listener counts on my custom/private internet radio stream, or even fetching the daily food trucks rotation at a nearby lunch site (influx can handle text data!)

I don't do anything for logging but I also like UptimeKuma to keep and eye on things I run. Grafana has alerting but I find it pretty horrible.

[–] tko@tkohhh.social 4 points 8 months ago

telegraf is so easy to use and extend

Definitely... you can write custom scripts that Telegraf will run and write that data to Influx. For instance, I have one that writes the Gateway status information from pfSense so I can track and graph any internet downtime.

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 9 points 8 months ago

For general system stats, I like btop. It runs in the terminal, so you can monitor it through SSH remotely. It also is much more readable than some of the other older top process monitors.

Docker desktop is a nice GUI interface for local docker container management, Portainer if you want something more enterprise grade.

[–] loganb@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

For container management I use portainer CE and for the rest I use CheckMK.

[–] harsh3466@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

+1 for Portainer CE. works like a charm.

[–] PunkiBas@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I discovered netdata yesterday and it's looking pretty good

[–] WhyAUsername_1@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I was going to say netdata as well. But I am not sure if it shows container wise stats.

[–] tehnomad@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Dockge for docker compose stacks. Glances for system resource usage because it has a Homepage widget.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 3 points 8 months ago

Cockpit has a nice integration for Podman containers.

[–] Lodra@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago

OpenTelemetry

[–] B0rax@feddit.de 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How about Telegraf -> influxDB -> Grafana?

For monitoring from my phone (iOS) I use ServerCat which I really like. It can show the status of multiple servers at a glance and provides detailed information and a SSH terminal if needed.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 3 points 8 months ago

TIG stack is what I use as well. I will take a look at servercat too. Thanks for mentioning it.

[–] surfrock66@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

It's a lot for the homeland, but I love zabbix

[–] PlexSheep@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I like to use my eyes, an ssh connection and my shell.

tmux and tui monitoring tools are also often handy.

[–] johsny@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

This is the way.

[–] knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Naemon and Graylog.

[–] shyguyblue@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Portainer for docker stuff; CasaOS for RAM, CPU usage, disk drive monitoring, samba shares.

Casa also lets you access the file system, so when jellyfin fails to clear transcodes, I can go in with the web interface and delete the folder.

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