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Best platform for self-hosted logs? (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by CrappyTan69@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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BLUF: Is there a "datadog-for-home"?

I've a ton of stuff running at home ranging from a 5-node PI cluster with various containers running on them including things like self-written python scripts doing "super important" stuff, node-red running everything about my energy setup, pfsense, TrueNAS etc.

Logging is painful and I've just lost about 4 hours trying to find a fault which stopped car charging. Lots of rabbit holes were entered as I currently don't have an end-to-end logging solution.

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What does everyone else use?

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

For most self hosted use cases Splunk's free 500MB (per day) license should be enough. It's way easier to set up and maintain than ELK and has tons of free extensions for parsing log formats and dashboards.

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

I considered it, seems nice.

Problem is that they recommend a 12 physical cores and 12GB which is a waste for the usual selfhosted lab.

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

I ran it on a VM with 2 cores tops and a couple of GB of RAM for about 50MB of logs per day.