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Easy metrics dashboard for multiple systems? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm looking for a simply solution to monitor all my servers and systems using a single dashboard. I want to see metrics like CPU usage, used RAM and storage to see if something is wrong.
I just set up Node-Exporter, Prometheus and Grafana but haven't found an existing dashboard that shows multiple hosts at once. Now I looked into Checkmk and Zabbix but I feel like both are a little overpowered for what I'm looking for. Do you have any recommendations?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Using the same setup, only have one host, but I remember there were some dashboards for multiple hosts, keep looking^^

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

I used the following dashboard now, but it's not really satisfying and also doesn't really fit more than 4 nodes. https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/11756-hpc-node-exporter-server-metrics-v2/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Check out Netdata

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

PRTG maybe? It's free for 100 sensors.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

But it's proprietary, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I think you can use grafana to present vidgets from different dashboards in one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I use Homepage for something similar to this

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Cockpit is a dashboard (and control!) app that can connect to multiple hosts.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

Thanks, looks promising. I'll give it a try.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Question: why don't you crate your own Grafana dashboard? Do you have too many servers?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't want to configure a whole Dashboard for at least CPU, RAM, Storage and Network for up to 5 hosts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

You’re likely not going to find a premade dashboard that does exactly what you want, but grafana is extremely powerful if you’re willing to put in the time to learn it. There are ways to visualize things across hosts without having to configure things separately for every host. If you’re using the same mechanism to scrape metrics from each (sounds like you’re using prometheus + node exporter?), this could be as simple as adding a by (node) (or whatever the label name is if it’s not node) grouping to the query on each panel.

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