I have a Raspberry Pi running Docker and a number of containers. I plan on adding another Pi soon. Curious what folks are using for a dashboard to monitor performance of all your hosts and containers. I was thinking of deploying Grafana for this but am curious what others use.
Grafana, VictoriaMetrics (drop-in replacement for Prometheus with better storage efficiency and enhanced query language), Loki, Telegraf and Promtail for metrics and logs correspondingly.
Example with provisioned datasources and dashboards here:
https://gitlab.com/homelab_software/monitoring
It’s possible to ship metrics and logs with cAdvisor and other tools.
Datadog.
Netdata
Does netdata support multiple servers? Can I see statistics for all hosts in a centralized way?
Thank you!
Telegraf with Docker Input Plugin installed on the Host writing to InfluxDB and displayed in Grafana, both running in Docker containers.
Here is a screenshot of my Server Performance Grafana dashboard.
I’m curious which monitoring tool is the easiest to deploy and maintain. I’m looking to deploy a monitoring solutions via docker on an existing server. I wasn’t a fan of Zabbix with their docker deployment.
Telegraf, InfluxDB and Grafana
vSphere lol
Home Assistant.
Mostly my own eyes… /s
I run Dozzle as a container on my host and I use the command ‘docker stats’ on the CLI on the dockerhost for in-depth stuff.
Munin. It’s highly portable and works with many operating systems.
I’m definitely alone but… Checkmk. AMA.
New Relic
Zabbix
I second this. I just set my instance up a couple weeks ago.
While researching, I saw many people saying that it’s very good but is hard to set up. I disagree with that to some degree; Setup itself is extremely easy, configuring it the way you want isn’t as easy BUT is wayyy more time consuming. Time consuming != hard, though. Just take time to tweak it how you want.
I second this. Setup was a breeze for me compared to checkmk.
What specs did you put it on?
Well, I run my containers in kubernetes.
And, it more or less includes full support for prometheus/grafana/alertmanager/etc.
So- I use that.
I have questions about this. I’ll be getting another Pi or two and was considering putting k8s on them. Would I be able to set them up with kubernetes and then import my existing Docker containers from my current Pi to them?
Yup. You can do that.
Although- you wouldn’t “import” your existing containers. but, you can…
- Create manifests for your containers (Kubernetes runs the exact same docker containers). or, find helm charts for your containers.
- Import the storage from docker into your new PV/PVCs.
I would, suggest learning kubernetes first though. Learning curve can be rather steep.
Also, rancher + k3s would work perfect for your Pis.
PRTG
Only reason I keep a Windows box around!