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
    8·
    6 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·
        6 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·
          6 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

  • Pax@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    6 months ago

    I’ve been using Zabbix for ages now. It has issues but I got used to it.

    • Tetsuo@jlai.luEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      Zabbix still remains a good choice imo. It works fine with Grafana et now the Zabbix-grafana plugin is officially supported by Grafana.

      Zabbix without Grafana is pretty weak in term of visualization.

  • johntash@eviltoast.orgEnglish
    4·
    6 months ago

    Uptime Kuma is great for simple up/down and web checks. Librenms is worth looking at too for other metrics.

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    I’ve used Zabbix for that before. I hope you like SNMP, though!

  • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    I used to use MQTT, static_status and Healthchecks.io, and have that data passed through to Home Assistant, but it started to get pretty cumbersome as the amount of machines I had grew.

    I now use just Zabbix and HealthchecksIO. I did need to spend some time writing new templates for some additional data I wanted to collect (like SMART data for SSDs that provide health metrics in non-standard attributes, and HealthchecksIO so I could see the status of various checks on my zabbix dashboard)

    Zabbix also has some additional features I found appealing, like proxies that can continue recording data when the main server is down, and built in encryption. Some checks like open ports/icmp responses etc can be checked using either the local agent, the remote server, or both, which helps quickly diagnose things like firewall config issues.

    I did look at some other solutions, but I wanted something integrated to hit the ground running. Mobile apps are very limited, and there is no official one to my knowledge. I use Moobix which I don’t believe is FOSS - but I could be wrong there

    Try each solution out and see what works best for you!

  • vegetaaaaaaa@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    I use netdata (the FOSS agent only, not the cloud offering) on all my servers (physical, VMs…) and stream all metrics to a parent netdata instance. It works extremely well for me.

    Other solutions are too cumbersome and heavy on maintenance for me. You can query netdata from prometheus/grafana [1] if you really need custom dashboards.

    I guess you wouldn’t be able to install it on the router/switch but there is a SNMP collector which should be able to query bandwidth info from the network appliances.

  • Pax@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    6 months ago

    Also uptime kuma for fast and easy up/down, web services, etc.