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How do you all monitor your server performance? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by Michaelscarn69-@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum

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As in, when I watched YouTube tutorials, I often see YouTubers have a small widget on their desktop giving them an overview of their ram usage, security level, etc. What apps do you all use to track this?

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[–] io-x@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I was looking at loki+grafana. is prometheus a replacement for loki in this setup and is it preferred?

[–] borouhin@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No, they serve different purposes. Loki is for logs, Prometheus is for metrics. Grafana helps to visualize data from both.

[–] Jacksaur@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about InfluxDB? I hear that mentioned around Grafana a lot.

[–] borouhin@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

InfluxDB is just a storage. If you have a service that saves metrics to InfluxDB (IIRC, Proxmox can do that), Grafana can read it from there. Grafana can aggregate data from many sources, Prometheus+Loki+InfluxDB+even queries to arbitrary JSON APIs etc.