As in, when I watched YouTube tutorials, I often see YouTubers have a small widget on their desktop giving them an overview of their ram usage, security level, etc. What apps do you all use to track this?
I currently use thr classic “Hu seems slow, checks basic things like disk usage and process CPU/RAM usage I’ll do a reboot to fix it for now”.
This is me. Can’t hurt to just do a reboot
Windows Server? )
The fastest way? Probably netdata
This. If you have more servers you can also get them all connected to a single UI where you can see all the Infos at once. With netdata cloud
Just set this up yesterday. I used a parent node and then have all my vms point to that. Took like an hour to figure it out
Hey, did you use the cloud functionality or not? I’m tryna go all local with parent-child kind of capability but so far unable to.
The parent still is visible to the cloud portal. My understanding is the data all resides local, but when you login to their cloud portal, it connects to the parent to display the information. I’m still playing with it to confirm. My parent node shows all the child nodes on the local interface but the cloud still shows them all.
I don’t know if I’ll keep running this. Already the child nodes are complaining about increase write delays since installing the agents on them.
agreed … BY FAR the fastest. Easiest learning curve as well
I’ll look into this too. Thank you.
Netdata, I’ve meant to look into Grafana but it always seemed way too overcomplicated and heavy for my purposes. Maybe one day, though…
I thought the same thing but it’s not bad actually, there are some pre build dashboards you can import for common metrics from Linux, windows, firewalls etc …
netdata is much better though (IMHO)
Checkmk (Raw - free version.) Some setup aspects are a bit annoying (wants to monitor every last ZFS dataset and takes too long to ‘ignore’ them one by one.) It does alert me to things that could cause issues, like the boot partition almost full. I run it in a Docker container on my (primarily) file server.
I use this as well! Works well and has built in intelligence for thresholds.
I know that it needs a fix when my dad complaining that he can’t watch TV and the rolling door doesn’t open in the morning.
I literally tried all. Nagios is the best one
easiest by far to set up, plenty of metrics
Its not well liked but I use nagios core for alerts and jump to grafana which has data in prometheus, influxdb, and mysql backend for trends like cpu usage hard drive Temps etc.
Use PRTG, up until 100 sensors it’s free.
Best Monitoring tool ever ☝🏻🙂
It is bit difficult at start, but really in the end you can monitor and get notification on anything thats happening on your system.
Prometheus and grafana
I use net data for both dashboards and alerts. Works great and easy to setup.
InfluxDB metrics server and Telegraf agent to collect metrics
Quick checks: Proxmox dashboard, htop or glances, Portainer
Extensive monitoring: Prometheus (node-exporter), Rsyslog server, Loki, Grafana, Uptime Kuma, Alertmanager (via Gotify)
I just check the proxmox dashboard every now and then. Honestly if everything is working I’m not too worried about exact ram levels at any given moment