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Best Monitoring Tools for Managing Multiple VPS
During the Black Friday sales, I went a bit overboard and ended up purchasing several VPS from different providers. Now, I’m looking for a way to monitor all of these servers from a single place.
What I’m Looking For:
Centralized Monitoring: A web-based panel where I can view the status of all my servers in one dashboard.
Free/Open Source: Preferably something free or open source.
Essential Features:
Resource usage monitoring (CPU, RAM, Disk, Bandwidth).
Uptime and performance tracking.
Easy setup and lightweight.
I’m hoping to find something that’s efficient and doesn’t eat up too many server resources.
Looking forward to your suggestions!
Comments
plz try Grafana+prometheus+node exporter or Beszel.
I'm currently using https://github.com/henrygd/beszel. It has a very nice UI and is light weight. I'm running their agent process in Docker and it's using 6MB of RAM on one of my server. The collection node is using 23MB RAM.
Check this: https://nezha.wiki/en_US/index.html
https://grafana.com/
https://newrelic.com/
Both have free plans, enough to cover all your idle VPSs
I like Hetrixtools, you get 15 free monitors and the resource reporting agent is just a bash script, so very light on resources. The agent is open source.
Hetrixtools.com
Free tier provides 15 monitors. Cannot go wrong.
Fully hosted and managed by them.
+1 @HBAndrei
I just recently started to use Hetrix for my idlers, but I might look at these other options to see what else is out there.
How is your experience with hetrixtools.com
@plumberg Good so far, but the servers I have setup for it are just idling so it's more of a learning project for me.
Gotcha.
Let us know what other tools you find
beszel look slick and modern. Going to try out.
Currently using signoz, deploy with k3s. https://signoz.io
How much resources is it using? Their documentation shows that it uses 9 separate containers https://signoz.io/docs/install/docker/#verify-the-installation
no that is just the output of "docker ps", it just lists all running containers in a system.
Currently using
hetrixtools - for server monitoring
uptimekuma(self hosted) - for service uptime (websites and databases)
Hoping to self host and try
https://checkmk.com/product/checkmk-raw
when I get time
also found
https://github.com/henrygd/beszel
https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz
to be promising options from this discussion
hoping to try them out when I get time
I opened similar thread just few days ago, I'm using beszel now
Hetrixtools
Also you can find more self-hosted options in
https://github.com/awesome-foss/awesome-sysadmin#monitoring
Netdata has a nice UI but is limited to 5 nodes, and I found its control panel a bit complicated. I’ve been using HetrixTools for uptime monitoring and just realized they also offer server monitoring—definitely giving that a try. Beszel looks simple and easy, so I’m installing it now and will share my experience soon.
I think they're all part of signoz. See https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/blob/main/deploy/docker/clickhouse-setup/docker-compose-minimal.yaml.
holy hell i think you are right
and that's 'minimal'???
Yeah, that's why I'm interested in knowing how much resources it's using from @derekamz. I don't think it would even start with < 2GB RAM.
Great. I tried Beszel and enjoying using it. Setup is easy, the UI is simple, integrating agent is strighforward.
Beszel Works great, flawless, easy setup
Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger tracing along with handful of exporters are my tool choices. I wish I will get hands on Newrelic free options, as many enterprises uses them. Beszel seems very lightweight. i wish more traceability to understand performance bottlenecks, transactions flow, data points, trace points for programmatic tools.
Just tried bezel, looks really good.
Wish it had a public status page.
Nope, my app on docker, but bazel out of docker..
Can Beszel running on nat ip ?
it should since there is an option to provide a custom port