I’m looking into setting up some monitoring combined with simple automation for my selfhosting. Currently I was thinking about using Zabbix.
I want to:
Track bandwidth usage on a router/fw and on a managed switch and track cpu/ram/disk usage on my vms.
Simple monitoring (up/down/maintenance) on the router, switch, my vms as well as on linux services (jellyfin/forgejo/etc) and windows services (lab for studying work-related tools).
I’m also interested in doing simple https checks on my webuis (i’ve had a service running but the website returning both 403 and 404 before) and testing nslookup on my internal dns (if the service is up but the lookups timeout I still want to try restarting the service).

Is there any FOSS/FLOSS alternatives that I should look into before diving into Zabbix?

  • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.meEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Prometheus/VictoriaMetrics/Grafana are pretty good, had no issues with it and there’s an exporter for damn near anything. They’re pretty easy to custom write too.

      • 4am@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        Yeah VictoriaMetrics is the new favorite since Influx keeps reinventing their wheels and trying to move everyone to the cloud.

        • keyez@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          May have to explore this, I still run influxdb and telegraf for a push metrics operation instead of pull like prom. Things have been smooth for a while but a couple months ago disk temps and metrics stopped working with no errors or missing plugins