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.
service still up = no problem
Can’t access service = problem, better ssh inSimple as
If a service falls in a server and no one is around to hear it, does it actually matter?
Great way to find services you really don’t need to be running.
Restart-always
Then avoid looking at your log files
If something goes down my kids will be a more immediate and annoying alerting tool than anything I’ve used professionally.
Can you hear the fan? If no, it’s probably fine.
Oh man, I thought it was “just” me 🤣 To be fair, the light counts as well (Qnap).
Never used a dashboard… I just manage my services on the cli with plain docker commands.
Users, monitoring your services for free since internet exists
I’m not, really. I run docker-compose and it runs. That’s it.
i just ssh and run haproxymon on my reverse proxy running haproxy. It monitors all the end points availability, traffic…
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.
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.
Uptime Kuma monitoring anything I care about and notifying me via Matrix, or notifying me via email if it’s Matrix that’s down.
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.
I don’t see how people can go without using dashboards. Considering I’m in America, I use them just about any time I go anywhere, as nearly all automobiles have them.
Real answer: I just have a script that updates everything
I don’t know how you guys function without some sort of visual. I will forget everything I’m running if it’s not on a dashboard of some sort. That’s not a maybe - it’s guaranteed. Because it’s happened before.
Surely, if you forget it’s even running, you aren’t using it, and it doesn’t matter if it stops running? (With a couple of obvious exceptions like automated backups, etc)
