Collectd VS VictoriaMetrics

https://collectd.org/ does the gathering (and writing to RRDTool database, if you so desire) part very well. Many plugins, easy to add more (just return one line of text)

Still need RRD viewere but that's not a huge stack

And it scales all the way to hundreds of hosts, as on top of network send/receive of stats it supports few other write formats aside from just RRD files.

Then you will have same problems but now you can bother manufacturer about it!

Also unless there is something horribly wrong about how often data is written, that SSD should run for ages.

We ran (for a test) consumer SSDs in busy ES cluster and they still lasted like 2 years just fine

The whole setup was a bit of overcomplicated too. RAID10 with 5+1 or 7+1 (yes Linux can do 7 drive RAID10) with hotspare woud've been entirely fine, easier, and most likely faster. You need backups anyway so ZFS doesn't give you much here, just extra CPU usage

Either way, monitoring wait per drive (easy way is to just plug collectd [1] into your monitoring stack, it is light and can monitor A TON of different metrics)

* [1]https://collectd.org/

Collectd pulls metrics from the OS, applications, logfiles and external devices for use in monitoring systems, finding performance bottlenecks and capacity planning. hombre_sabio explains, "Collectd is a tiny daemon that gathers information from a system. It enables mechanisms to collect and observe the values in different techniques. It is an open-source monitoring tool to retrieve and manage SNMP master agents."

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For metrics storage I'm using a Graphite database and the graph UI itself is Grafana. To get these I'm using the Debian repos they supply with mostly off-the-shelf configs. For collecting metrics from the Pi to send to Graphite I use collectd. It has a lot of off-the-shelf plugins you can use to grab metrics like CPU usage & load average, network in/out, memory stats etc. The Minecraft-specific stuff you can get from configuring collectd plugins as well, like the tick lag graph I use the "tail" plugin to follow and parse the server log.

For monitoring, personally I use collectd and Collectd Graph Panel (sadly the latter is abandoned, but it still works fine)

VictoriaMetrics CTO here.

The referred library is the official OpenTelemetry package for reading metrics in Go language [1] - more details are available at [2].

Note that we at VictoriaMetrics like the idea of unified observability standard like OpenTelemetry. The issue is in the current otel implementation. It is too bloated and very inefficient. This contradicts to our experience with observability cases, which need very optimized format for metrics' transfer in order to reduce costs on CPU and network traffic needed to transfer and process these metrics.

VictoriaMetrics continues investing in OpenTelemetry by providing integration docs [3] and improving the existing functionality for otel metrics' ingestion [4].

[1] https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-proto-go

[2] https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2570...

[3] https://docs.victoriametrics.com/guides/getting-started-with...

[4] https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/60...

Victoria Metrics

VictoriaMetrics is primarily a time-series database designed for efficiently storing and querying time-series data. It is often used as a back-end data store for time-series data generated by monitoring systems like Prometheus. VictoriaMetrics excels at handling large volumes of time-series data, offering efficient storage and query capabilities.

Not sure I follow since there are very competitive tools written in Go such as https://victoriametrics.com for an example in this space.

Did you try VictoriaMetrics [1] and vmagent [2]? It is a single self-contained binary without external dependencies. It requires relatively low amounts of CPU, RAM, disk space and disk IO, and it runs on ARM.

[1] https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/

[2] https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html

https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics#cardinali...

If I understanding correctly, it deal with high cardinality by dropping data, the operators need to monitor for this and adjust their data to lower the cardinality.

VictoriaMetrics

You shouldn't unless you want to use the new open source standard for telemetry. You won't benefit from simplicity or performance improvements. It would be quite the opposite. You can check what is the actual cost of open telemetry adoption here [0]

But if you ever decide to go this path - VictoriaMetrics supports OpenTelemetry protocol for metrics [1]

[0] https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2570

[1] https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Single-server-VictoriaMetri...