Netdata: Open-source real-time monitoring platform

Re:Netdata: Open-source real-time monitoring platform by mdip on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @10:23AM (#26890073)

  > never really actionable ... only of interest for a short period ... you know where and when the problem is.

I'm not a sysadmin of a large shop (I did that for a short bit, but prior to this existing), so I can only speak as a guy who runs a few big linux servers/virtuals. I've had netdata installed on my home severs for quite some time. And yes, the graphs were really cool, at first, and kinda went into the background.

Here's the thing: when something isn't right with those boxes, that's become the first place I visit. Since I had some franken-boxes with a bunch of storage, it's often related to the array, or btrfs. When I hop in there I'll notice an alert or two, gooble it, alter something and never see it again. It helped me solve some network issues.

I don't know, short of it being a more busy process than I wish it were on my server (only a little and I'm running a few plug-ins on the one that I'm unhappy with), it's been helpful.

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Re:Netdata: Open-source real-time monitoring platform by fatlasp on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @11:19AM (#26890813)

Same. I'm not a fully qualified sys admin but I do have access to a number of our servers (I'm more of a full stack generalist than an expert at anything) and I immediately go to netdata when one of my services isn't acting right. For me its a nice 'system at a glance' where I can check on the host and then alert someone more knowledgeable than myself if there's something that looks off

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