What monitoring tools you are using

gbzret4d

What monitoring or rmm tools you are using and for what you use them? Paid, free or self hosted?

I use hetrixtools for my servers and domains and tactical rmm and action1 to update family computers and manage them.
And now I'm trying to set up my own instance of uptimekuma.

dustinc

We utilize a mix of HetrixTools for monitoring from an external perspective, as well as custom Grafana dashboards. Grafana is more useful to not only have a second set of eyes monitoring the infrastructure, but as well as to gain more detailed/advanced insights (i.e. RAID health, predicted drives lifespan, etc — and even exim queue levels on our shared hosting servers). We then closely monitor these stats — including utilizing TV's for monitoring.

JosephF

What are the practical differences between self hosted tools and something like HetrixTools?

NewbieInTraining

updown.io

zGato

@JosephF said:
What are the practical differences between self hosted tools and something like HetrixTools?

not practical, but $$$

SodaWithoutSparkles

uptime kuma

I have made a similar one before, you might wanna check it out.

gbzret4d

@SodaWithoutSparkles said:
uptime kuma

I have made a similar one before, you might wanna check it out.

Thanks, I searched before but couldn't find your thread.

Ympker

Hetrixtools

gbzret4d

@dustinc said:
We utilize a mix of HetrixTools for monitoring from an external perspective, as well as custom Grafana dashboards. Grafana is more useful to not only have a second set of eyes monitoring the infrastructure, but as well as to gain more detailed/advanced insights (i.e. RAID health, predicted drives lifespan, etc — and even exim queue levels on our shared hosting servers). We then closely monitor these stats — including utilizing TV's for monitoring.

I'm too stupid to set up Prometheus and grafana for myself but it. Hetrixtools is such a nice service. Free plan is enough for people like me to monitor some domains or servers and not that expensive for someone like you or your company.

flamey

Grafana Cloud (free tier) and Hetrix tools (free tier) for agent-based resource monitoring.
Uptime Kuma running on pikapods (around $1.6 per month) and Uptime Robot (free tier) for external monitoring (including DNS)
Hetrix tools (free tier) for blacklist monitoring
Grafana Cloud (free tier) for logs monitoring too
Wazuh hosted on one of my servers for XDR/SIEM (this one, I have open on a private intranet using tailscale as I didn't really want to keep it open to the internet)
And for notifications, I get them over discord as all the tools support that and I have discord both on my laptop and phone.

CloudHopper

I'm using Zabbix. It's free, open source and I'm monitoring ~30 servers from a 1.5Gb VPS, (which is barely straining), so it would probably run on a $1 special. I also have Zabbix Agents running on my 256MB NAT servers without issues.

There's a bit of a learning curve to get started, but it's not steep and once you've got your head around it you'll never look back.

faleddo

@CloudHopper said:
I'm using Zabbix. It's free, open source and I'm monitoring ~30 servers from a 1.5Gb VPS, (which is barely straining), so it would probably run on a $1 special. I also have Zabbix Agents running on my 256MB NAT servers without issues.

There's a bit of a learning curve to get started, but it's not steep and once you've got your head around it you'll never look back.

Me too. I'm running zabbix server in free tier oracle arm without issue.

MGarbis

Hetrixtools mainly but playing around with Zabbix.

mailcheap

We have been using Zabbix for the last 7 years. It has a dashboard, API, plugins for everything under the sun, can even ingest Prometheus metrics, but the complexity is quite bad.
Since 6.0, simple things like connecting an event (trigger in Zabbix speak) to a service has become needlessly complicated and opaque.

Pavin.

kenwong

Betterstack, netdata.cloud and good old Observium.

theraw

i wait till things go off