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What do y’all use to monitor many linux servers? (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 days ago by shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I’m hoping to find something that:

has a nice dashboard
is quick and simple to install
is very lightweight and unobtrusive
can send alerts via http request

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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I think they went to 5 nodes max on the free version as of the last patch. That's damn near useless.

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

Oh that sucks. I haven't used it personally in quite a while, since I switched to the Grafana stack

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is that just for the centralized dashboard portion? I tend to use each instance of it standalone, and primarily for the email alerts.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I believe so. I imagine the next stage of the enshittification will be to force those standalones to register with a portal account.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That would be a truly dark day. I never liked their centralized dashboard functionality, it always seemed cumbersome to me.

I hope that doesn't happen, but I guess if it does, I will really need to find a different monitoring tool.

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The five node limit is a dealbreaker for me too. I'm also annoyed the free version doesn't have any real built in options to secure data by default. I followed a TechnoTim tutorial to get the NetData/Prometheus/Grafana stuff setup but it was too limited and required too much manual effort.