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
  • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Netdata is exactly what you’re looking for. It’s basically an all in one monitoring and and alerting suite that collects and analyzes data, and provides a gorgeous web dashboard for you to view.

    You can also manually replicate this using Prometheus, Grafana and other tools, but that requires a much bigger effort to set up.

    Edit: There’s a public demo instance where you can try everything out: https://frankfurt.netdata.rocks/

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      Seconding Netdata, I’ve been using it for years. It’s pretty great.

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

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

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

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            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.

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        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.