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?

  • vegetaaaaaaa@lemmy.world
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    5 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.