I’m pretty new to selfhosting, but one thing that I know to take seriously is log collection. Since there are a lot of different type of logs (kernel log, application logs, etc) and logs come in many different formats (binary, json, strings) - it’s no easy task to collect them centrally and look through them whenever neccessarly.
I’ve looked at grafana and tried the agent briefly, but it wasn’t as easy as I thought (and it might be a too big tool for my needs). So I thought to ask the linuxlemmy community to get some inspiration.
Nice! If you’d write a guide on your setup, I’d be all over it (along with others I’m sure) 😀
You’ll want to check this out: https://www.tumfatig.net/2022/ads-blocking-with-openbsd-unbound8/
That’s the post I took inspiration from for this setup. It does use collectd and custom awk scripts for log ingestion though, where I simply use telegraf.