I FINALLY figured out how to drive the Grafana bus. I know, I know…pretty basic stuff. In the past I always drooled over dialed out dashboards I’ve seen. Charts, graphs, readouts, dials…but I never could quite wrap my head around it all.
Well, now I have charts, graphs, readouts, logs, dials, and it feels pretty good to have finally learned something new that I’ve been whacking away at for a while. The plus side is that the whole Graphana+Promtail+Loki stack sips lightly on my resources, whereas in the past, things like the ELK stack, Opensearch, Graylog, etc, really devoured a lot of resources. I really tried with those but just didn’t like how ravenous of a RAM appetite they had.
I’m still using lnav. It’s quick and dirty and gets the job done for logs. But if I want to look at data, with nice a prettyfied interface, I go look at Grafana. So now the process will be to, dial out and graph every last little thing until I suffer from info overload, and then ease it back to just what is necessary. It’s a fucked up process, but it’s how I do.
As my lady friend is apt to say: It’s the little things…
ETA: I have cAdvisor rockin’ plus influxDB, and the the thing is only sipping like max 2 GB. I’ve got logs, dials, charts n’ graphs. I got bitches in the living room gettin’ it on…This is amazing for such little processing power.
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ELK stack
Lolol yes, elastic was a pig for me too
It was like running windows. The more I fed it, the more it belched and devoured more. LOL Now I see that I am going to have to figure out Grafana Alloy, as Prom is nearing it’s eol in '26. Le sigh… that’s the way it goes.
I’d love to use it but virus total always flags it as a virus and I get too scared.
