Easy metrics dashboard for multiple systems?
from dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.com to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 01 Jun 2024 10:58
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/21401398

I’m looking for a simply solution to monitor all my servers and systems using a single dashboard. I want to see metrics like CPU usage, used RAM and storage to see if something is wrong.
I just set up Node-Exporter, Prometheus and Grafana but haven’t found an existing dashboard that shows multiple hosts at once. Now I looked into Checkmk and Zabbix but I feel like both are a little overpowered for what I’m looking for. Do you have any recommendations?

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psyolia@lemmy.world on 01 Jun 2024 12:41 next collapse

Using the same setup, only have one host, but I remember there were some dashboards for multiple hosts, keep looking^^

dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 01 Jun 2024 15:56 collapse

I used the following dashboard now, but it’s not really satisfying and also doesn’t really fit more than 4 nodes. grafana.com/…/11756-hpc-node-exporter-server-metr…

magikmw@lemm.ee on 01 Jun 2024 13:25 next collapse

I think you can use grafana to present vidgets from different dashboards in one.

KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world on 01 Jun 2024 13:45 next collapse

PRTG maybe? It’s free for 100 sensors.

dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 01 Jun 2024 21:10 collapse

But it’s proprietary, unfortunately.

KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world on 01 Jun 2024 21:50 collapse

Sorry didn’t realize you were trying to connect the systems you mentioned, I thought this was a unified approach instead of them.

anzo@programming.dev on 01 Jun 2024 18:07 next collapse

Cockpit is a dashboard (and control!) app that can connect to multiple hosts.

dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 01 Jun 2024 21:10 collapse

Thanks, looks promising. I’ll give it a try.

peregus@lemmy.world on 01 Jun 2024 19:31 next collapse

Question: why don’t you crate your own Grafana dashboard? Do you have too many servers?

dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 01 Jun 2024 21:08 collapse

I don’t want to configure a whole Dashboard for at least CPU, RAM, Storage and Network for up to 5 hosts.

__init__@programming.dev on 02 Jun 2024 01:56 next collapse

You’re likely not going to find a premade dashboard that does exactly what you want, but grafana is extremely powerful if you’re willing to put in the time to learn it. There are ways to visualize things across hosts without having to configure things separately for every host. If you’re using the same mechanism to scrape metrics from each (sounds like you’re using prometheus + node exporter?), this could be as simple as adding a by (node) (or whatever the label name is if it’s not node) grouping to the query on each panel.

nexas_XIII@lemm.ee on 02 Jun 2024 05:00 collapse

Exactly this. We use node exporter, Prometheus, and Grafana at my place of work to get node metrics across our K8s cluster for CPU, memory utilization, file system space, etc.

You’ll have to do some searching and tweaking of existing dashboards, but Grafana is crazy good

Evotech@lemmy.world on 02 Jun 2024 05:27 collapse

It’s not that bad. Grafana has a lot of features for this.

Omgboom@lemmy.zip on 01 Jun 2024 21:19 next collapse

Btop running in multiple ssh sessions lol

Edit: lol you said “easy”

Longpork3@lemmy.nz on 02 Jun 2024 02:24 collapse

This is actually how I do things when working on remote machines. I have far too many monitors, so dedicating on of them to a handful of btop/nvtop terminals works pretty well.

I admit that it’s a less than perfect setup though, and a single program which could handle the remote connections internally and display an aggregate would be nice.

codemichael@lemmy.world on 02 Jun 2024 01:53 next collapse

Check out Netdata

Untitled4774@sh.itjust.works on 02 Jun 2024 04:47 collapse

I use Homepage for something similar to this