I’ve got a lot of services, some in docker, some in LXC or a VM in proxmox. Currently I’ve got no monitoring service. Recently a service went down and I didn’t notice for quite a while so now I’ve got a bunch of missing data. What monitoring tools do you all use? Looking for something that works with docker and plain Linux CTs/VMs and can notify me if a website is down, docker container crashed, VM is offline, etc.

and as a bonus feature something that I can run on two machines so if an entire machine dies, the other will notice and I’ll still receive a notification.

notification can be anything, email, sms, push, etc.

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    1 year ago

    I’d like to explore Prometheus (I’ve never used it). Right now I use InfluxDB to store some data (ping times, temperature, servers load, etc.) can Prometheus read those values and react if something is off or should I store everything twice?

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      1 year ago

      prometheus use own time series database. you can connect influxdb to grafana and send alarms from grafana, but alertmanager better i think. node-explorer can collect all this data (sensors, VM/PC load etc.)

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        1 year ago

        I’ve never used alerting in Grafana, how do they work? Is it possible to get alert if a ping is higher than xx for a period of time? What are alertmanager and node-explorer? Plugins or standalone tools? Sorry for all the questions! 😁 And thanks for the info!

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          1 year ago

          Grafana sends an email screenshot of the graph when an event is triggered on the graph. You can see alerts part on any graph for understand.