Server Monitoring [Recap]. Know your hardware' Health

Recently I was setting a VPS to software for weddings.

And i found this on reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1eb4bi5/i_just_released_beszel_a_server_monitoring_hub/

So I went back to the VPS provider https://console.hetzner.cloud/projects to try the setup.

Beszel

• https://github.com/henrygd/beszel
  • https://hub.docker.com/r/henrygd/beszel
  • https://beszel.dev/

MIT | Lightweight server monitoring hub with historical data, docker stats, and alerts.

Following the docs - https://beszel.dev/guide/getting-started

Then, you will create the admin user at first login.

And you will be at this point:

From where you can add the first PC to monitor

See how DBTech does the full process:

And you can add the agent as CLI (instead of a docker service):

Other Monitoring Solutions

Tianji

Its not just a web analytics tool!

You just need to setup the given script on your server that pops up when you try to add it.

To stop Tianji:

systemctl --type=service --state=running
# sudo systemctl stop tianji-reporter.service

For just web analytics:

Netdata and Grafana

My first monitoring at the homelab were possible thanks to:

And you can actually use Netdata + Grafana + Prometheus to make a cool monitoring setup:

Internet Monitoring Tools

1. With a Raspberry Pi
2. Internet Speed Tracker
3. WatchYourLan Setup
4. Gatus - OSS website monitoring!
5. https://akashrajpurohit.com/blog/monitor-internet-speed-with-speedtest-tracker/