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.
If something goes down my kids will be a more immediate and annoying alerting tool than anything I’ve used professionally.
Seconded…
i am un-admining. free-range artisanal services wherever i happen to drop them. hell i don’t even know what’s running and what’s not until i try to access something.
i manage tech all day so my home tech is nothing but abject chaos and i’m ok with that. i have backups and i can go without if needed.
i am un-admining
Pretty much this. I just manually handle stuff when needed. I already work at IT so this feels quite liberating, the last thing I want is to annoy myself more, and the stuff I manage is not Critical™.
I’m not, really. I run docker-compose and it runs. That’s it.
I want to believe I’m a half step ahead with lazydocker
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.
Users, monitoring your services for free since internet exists
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.
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)
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.
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.
Set of cron jobs that check services, then send a Matrix message if there’s an issue.
For the cron jobs, I pipe
stderrto 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.
Does dockge count as a dashboard?
'Cause I use that to quickly check on what’s running, what’s stopped. Then I do most of my mainenance in a terminal, via SSH to the server.
Can you hear the fan? If no, it’s probably fine.
Oh man, I thought it was “just” me 🤣 To be fair, the light counts as well (Qnap).
Arch packages. All services have systemd integration.
I’ll notice it’s down when I try to access it and it doesn’t work. If it’s not down, there is nothing to manage 🙃
I have documentation if I need to see everything at a glance. I don’t need a live-updating dashboard for that.
I monitor everything with xymon, I get emails when there’s a problem. Works like a charm.
FreshRSS to keep track of as much as possible, along with Uptime Kuma and plain old bookmarks
