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its_me_gb, 1 year ago to selfhosted in How do you monitor your servers / VPS:es?

I haven’t, but it looks like I’ve got another exporter to install and dashboard to create 😁

its_me_gb, 1 year ago to selfhosted in How do you monitor your servers / VPS:es?

Not a whole lot to be honest. But I work with OpenTelemetry everyday for my day job, so it was a little exercise for me.

Though, OTEL does have some advantages in that It is a vendor agnostic collection tool. allowing you to use multiple different collection methods and switch out your backend easily if you wish.

its_me_gb, 1 year ago (edited 9 months ago) to selfhosted in How do you monitor your servers / VPS:es?

Prometheus for metrics

Loki for logs

Grafana for dashboards.

I use node exporter for host metrics (Proxmox/VMs/SFFs/RaspPis/Router) and a number of other *exporters:

• exportarr
• plex-exporter
• unifi-exporter
• bitcoin node exporter

I use the OpenTelemetry collector to collect some of the above metrics, rather than Prometheus itself, as well as docker logs and other log files before shipping them to Prometheus/Loki.

Oh, I also scrape metrics from my Traefik containers using OTEL as well.