this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2025
39 points (100.0% liked)

Selfhosted

60795 readers
686 users here now

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

Rules:

Detailed Rules Post

  1. Be civil.

  2. No spam.

  3. Posts are to be related to self-hosting.

  4. Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or readme if you're providing a link.

  5. Submission headline should match the article title.

  6. No trolling.

  7. Promotion posts require active participation, with an account that is at least 30 days old. F/LOSS without a paywall has exceptions, with requirements. See the rules link for details. Tags [CBH] or [AIP] are required, see the links in Rule 8 for details.

  8. AI-related discussions and AI-involved promotional posts have additional requirements for tagging, as noted in Rule 7 and the AI & Promotional Post Expanded Rules post, and find example disclosures here.

Resources:

Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.

Questions? DM the mods!

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
ruud@lemmy.world
Loki@lemmy.world
CannaVet@lemmy.world
devve@lemmy.world
ayyy@sh.itjust.works
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus
curbstickle_lw@lemmy.world
39
It's Gonna Be A Good Day, 'Tater (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by irmadlad@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
18 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

I FINALLY figured out how to drive the Grafana bus. I know, I know...pretty basic stuff. In the past I always drooled over dialed out dashboards I've seen. Charts, graphs, readouts, dials...but I never could quite wrap my head around it all.

Well, now I have charts, graphs, readouts, logs, dials, and it feels pretty good to have finally learned something new that I've been whacking away at for a while. The plus side is that the whole Graphana+Promtail+Loki stack sips lightly on my resources, whereas in the past, things like the ELK stack, Opensearch, Graylog, etc, really devoured a lot of resources. I really tried with those but just didn't like how ravenous of a RAM appetite they had.

I'm still using lnav. It's quick and dirty and gets the job done for logs. But if I want to look at data, with nice a prettyfied interface, I go look at Grafana. So now the process will be to, dial out and graph every last little thing until I suffer from info overload, and then ease it back to just what is necessary. It's a fucked up process, but it's how I do.

As my lady friend is apt to say: It's the little things.....

ETA: I have cAdvisor rockin' plus influxDB, and the the thing is only sipping like max 2 GB. I've got logs, dials, charts n' graphs. I got bitches in the living room gettin' it on....This is amazing for such little processing power.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] __init__@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should be able to just add a scrape config to your existing deployment of prometheus

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thank you for the reply. I guess I am thinking, why have multiple Prometheus instances running, eating up resources, when I could do it with just one.

[–] __init__@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For sure. Simplifies querying the data too, since you won’t need to deal with multiple data sources in grafana.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Awesome!

[–] MXX53@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry I didn’t get back to you right away. But this is correct. I just have Prometheus scrape cAdvisor.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You're fine. Thanks for the follow up.