How do you manage and monitor your VPS?

pointgod

As my VPS count increases I've started to look for a way to monitor and manage them. Not worried about uptime montiors, I'm curious how others are:

• Tracking CPU,RAM,and Disk
• Patching
• Monitoring/running backups

add_iT

Hetrixtool

elliotc

Tracking CPU,RAM,and Disk: Check email if the provider warn me.
Patching: I dont know what are you talking about. Never patch.
Monitoring/running backups: Yolo! Seriously, data loss does happen from time to time, usually because my backup scripts fail to work... No such resource to keep tracking backup. Let it go

pointgod

@add_iT said:
Hetrixtool

What about patching?

Wicked

SpinupWP for WP sites
RunCloud for a few bigger projects
Swizzin (Free) for Plex/media

Backblaze and Wasabi for storage/backups.

My employer pays for everything above. If that wasn't the case I would pick HestiaCP or something like Cloudways.

MGarbis

Hetrixtool and Zabbix.

pouyam

For monitoring I'm very happy with Hetrixtools

pointgod

@MGarbis said:
Hetrixtool and Zabbix.

Do you use both together? Seems like Zabbix could do everything Hetrixtools does.

bakageta

@pointgod said:
What about patching?

yum-cron / dnf-automatic set to email me has always been fine, I can see issues when they happen to resolve manually. What kind of monitoring/management are you looking for here? Feels like you need to get a lot more specific about your servers, suggestions will probably vary by OS at minimum.

umzak

if you have a lot of vps, u can use Runcloud, $12.5/month for annually paid

MGarbis

@pointgod said:

@MGarbis said:
Hetrixtool and Zabbix.

Do you use both together? Seems like Zabbix could do everything Hetrixtools does.

Nope. I wanted to try Zabbix selfhosted. That's why it's monitoring one VPS.
Hetrixtool is simple and easy setup so it's in "normal use".
I think it's good to know how your servers are working and get alarms if they are down. Even if you are running servers for a personal use only.

pointgod

@bakageta said:
What kind of monitoring/management are you looking for here? Feels like you need to get a lot more specific about your servers, suggestions will probably vary by OS at minimum.

That's a fair point. I'm mostly looking at Debian/Ubuntu with different selfhosted projects like n8n and owncloud. The responses I've gotten have been helpful.

Peppery9

Monitoring: LibreNMS
Patching: Ansible playbooks
Backups: Depending on the data... Proxmox native/Borg/rclone scripts.

Talistech

Zabbix for monitoring.
Ansible playbooks for patching.
Borg for backups.

nfn

Monitoring: HetrixTools
Backup: restic + rsync.net and rclone + backblaze b2
Cluster Failover: HetrixTools Webhook + Cloudflare API

Arkas

I think HetrixTools is a main component in monitoring. Once a week, or maybe every 2 weeks I run updates.

o_be_one

For personnal
Managing: Ansible
Monitoring: HetrixTools, NetData, healthchecks.io, some personnal script with webhooks to PushOver and Discord
Backup: Duplicacy (with S3 backends), BorgBackup

For professionnal
Managing: AWS CloudFormation, Terraform
Monitoring: ELK, promstack, CloudWatch
Backup: AWS Backup, AWS S3