I know dashboards are super trendy, but I’d love to hear from those who are not using them. I personally use FreshRSS to keep track of as much as possible, along with Uptime Kuma and plain old bookmarks. Perhaps there is a better overview solution, but I also love filtering what I see to not feel overwhelmed. or spammed, by information.
I have just reduced the number of services to the couple I actually use, which I mostly remember exist. I have my own domain, so each service is service.mydomain.tld
Same for me. I use most of my services multiple times a week, so I find out pretty quickly if one isn’t working.
Same here 🙂 Last 3 times, things have broken because zfs raid on usb-connected DAS is not a great idea 😅😅
Even though Level1Tech said it works 😶🫣 https://youtu.be/GmQdlLCw-5k from 11:11 . Maybe terramaster use bad usb chipset.
I used a hodge-podge of chinesium parts and leftover drives to create a DAS system that hooks up to an HBA via DAC. I’m actually kinda surprised how stable it’s all been.
If something goes down my kids will be a more immediate and annoying alerting tool than anything I’ve used professionally.
Seconded…
I monitor everything with xymon, I get emails when there’s a problem. Works like a charm.
I tried portainer for a while, but it was almost useless to me, as I’d always end up in the command line anyway. So I dropped that and any other dashboard idea.
I call an api in technitium to register dns for all services when they are instantiated, and route everything through an nginx reverse proxy - Sonarr.internal.tld for example
I don’t use any kind of monitoring Or dashboards
I just simply dont monitor most things. I do have a few things such as low disk space and failed backups. They are just simple shell scripts that send me an ntfy message when there is a problem.
I’ll notice it’s down when I try to access it and it doesn’t work. If it’s not down, there is nothing to manage 🙃
I have documentation if I need to see everything at a glance. I don’t need a live-updating dashboard for that.
FreshRSS to keep track of as much as possible, along with Uptime Kuma and plain old bookmarks
I do have Dashboards in Grafana, but I only use them to look something up. I have Prometheus Alertmanager connected to a Matrix bot that sends me messages when something looks wrong.
Set of cron jobs that check services, then send a Matrix message if there’s an issue.
For the cron jobs, I pipe
stderrto another script that watches those and does the same.If all fails, and internet is unavailable and the router crashes, a Pi will toggle a relay, cutting and resupplying power.
Users, monitoring your services for free since internet exists
I use my own dashboard as a links page, nagios to monitor all the running servers and service’s. Nagios will post to pushover if there’s an issue.
Uptime Kuma monitoring anything I care about and notifying me via Matrix, or notifying me via email if it’s Matrix that’s down.
I use portainer, not sure if that counts as a dashboard?
Does dockge count as a dashboard?
'Cause I use that to quickly check on what’s running, what’s stopped. Then I do most of my mainenance in a terminal, via SSH to the server.
