I know dashboards are super trendy, but I’d love to hear from those who are not using them. I personally use FreshRSS to keep track of as much as possible, along with Uptime Kuma and plain old bookmarks. Perhaps there is a better overview solution, but I also love filtering what I see to not feel overwhelmed. or spammed, by information.

  • conrad82@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    3 months ago

    I have just reduced the number of services to the couple I actually use, which I mostly remember exist. I have my own domain, so each service is service.mydomain.tld

    • credics@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      3 months ago

      Same for me. I use most of my services multiple times a week, so I find out pretty quickly if one isn’t working.

      • conrad82@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        3 months ago

        Same here 🙂 Last 3 times, things have broken because zfs raid on usb-connected DAS is not a great idea 😅😅

        Even though Level1Tech said it works 😶🫣 https://youtu.be/GmQdlLCw-5k from 11:11 . Maybe terramaster use bad usb chipset.

        • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          I used a hodge-podge of chinesium parts and leftover drives to create a DAS system that hooks up to an HBA via DAC. I’m actually kinda surprised how stable it’s all been.

  • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    14·
    3 months ago

    If I had time to make dashboards, I wouldn’t waste it making dashboards. Most of the stuff I have just works without a lot of attention, and that’s the way I like it.

    I just wait for someone to scream if it breaks.

  • communism@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    3 months ago

    Never used a dashboard… I just manage my services on the cli with plain docker commands.

  • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    61·
    3 months ago

    I don’t know how you guys function without some sort of visual. I will forget everything I’m running if it’s not on a dashboard of some sort. That’s not a maybe - it’s guaranteed. Because it’s happened before.

    • lucas@startrek.websiteEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      Surely, if you forget it’s even running, you aren’t using it, and it doesn’t matter if it stops running? (With a couple of obvious exceptions like automated backups, etc)

      • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        4·
        3 months ago

        It was often the automated things that I completely forgot about. I have ADHD, so if it’s not accessible in a reasonable way (where I don’t have to always google specific commands to find basic info on my own machine), then it gets lost in the memory hole. I know that a service is running, but would forget what it is.

        These days I have it pretty down-pat. Hardware is labeled, static IPs are set for “critical” VMs and LXCs (because I’m shit at DNS and still trying to get that down), and things are actually somewhat documented in an easy-to-find place.

  • curled@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    3 months ago

    Kubernetes with

    • helm
      • the Kubernetes version of compose files
    • fluxcd
      • manages the helm releases
    • renovate
      • scans my github kubernetes repo for dependencies and creates pull requests for updates
  • koala@programming.devEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    https://charity.wtf/2021/08/09/notes-on-the-perfidy-of-dashboards/

    Graphs and stuff might be useful for doing capacity planning or observing some trends, but most likely you don’t need either.

    If you want to know when something is down (and you might not need to know), set up alerts. (And do it well, you should only receive “actionable” alerts. And after setting alerts, you should work on reducing how many actionable things you have to do.)

    (I did set up Nagios to send graphs to Clickhouse, plotted by Grafana. But mostly because I wanted to learn a few things and… I was curious about network latencies and wanted to plan storage a bit long term. But I could live perfectly without those.)

  • Fmstrat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    Set of cron jobs that check services, then send a Matrix message if there’s an issue.

    For the cron jobs, I pipe stderr to another script that watches those and does the same.

    If all fails, and internet is unavailable and the router crashes, a Pi will toggle a relay, cutting and resupplying power.

  • brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    Unraid has a table of the docker containers.

    I don’t need metrics or stats. I wouldn’t look at, or care about them anyway. Dashboards feel like tech enthusiast crap. Tech and resources for the sake of having tech. My services are to solve a problem, not look at metrics of.

  • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    I tried portainer for a while, but it was almost useless to me, as I’d always end up in the command line anyway. So I dropped that and any other dashboard idea.

  • kiol@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    FreshRSS to keep track of as much as possible, along with Uptime Kuma and plain old bookmarks