godber

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  • The number one reason is that Grafana is king of the open source operational dashboards. Grafana works with so many backends and has worked so well for so long it’s hard to beat.

    Then when you start considering the metric collection and storage setting up a node exporter and black box exporter covers 80% of your use cases. There are scaling and security advantages to Prometheus’ pull architecture too.

    I share your annoyance with having to roll out multiple services but I recently bundled them all together into a docker compose that I had been considering sharing publicly. If you can wait a couple weeks I can share that.

    One other thought is that separating all of the development of the exporter components means that the teams with real expertise in the service being monitored can collect the best metrics. Rather than a monitoring project making a half ass metric collector for a service they have never used or managed.

    Also Grafana has built in alerting so alert manager can be skipped in some cases.








  • godberAtoAZ.social ChatHowdy from Tucson.social!
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    6 months ago

    Hi, pleased to meet you. There’s just a few of us here I think. I help run this and az.social, a mastodon instance. We haven’t found need to moderate a whole lot though I’ve considered applying a very small block list on Az.social. Blocking obviously illegal in the US stuff. I started out with an ambitious plan for fediverse in the western us then toned it back as adoption was slow. Check out my western social Patreon for some of my thoughts there, the posts should be public. But I’ve not done a lot to pursue growing those services. I’ve switched to doing more core ISP services. … basically building my own marginal cloud service http://hawt.cloud. I haven’t opened anything up to the public yet, just people I know.