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Simpler alternative to prometheus-alertmanager and/or graphana? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago by talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Prometheus-alertmanager and graphana (especially graphana!) seem a bit too involved for monitoring my homelab (prometheus itself is fine: it does collect a lot of statistics I don't care about, but it doesn't require configuration so it doesn't bother me).

Do you know of simpler alternatives?

My goals are relatively simple:

  1. get a notification when any systemd service fails
  2. get a notification if there is not much space left on a disk
  3. get a notification if one of the above can't be determined (eg. server down, config error, ...)

Seeing graphs with basic system metrics (eg. cpu/ram usage) would be nice, but it's not super-important.

I am a dev so writing a script that checks for whatever I need is way simpler than learning/writing/testing yaml configuration (in fact, I was about to write a script to send heartbeats to something like Uptime Kuma or Tianji before I thought of asking you for a nicer solution).

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[-] Mora@pawb.social 3 points 1 month ago

The easiest solution I found and use is Beszel.

https://github.com/henrygd/beszel

Just a hub with the most important stats and some simple agents on the servers.

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