dnscrypt-proxy VS shift-rmm

There is more than one way to do this but I have decided to use dnscrypt-proxy. We will not be using dnscrypt for the dnscrypt protocol though you could elect to use that as the underlying DNS protocol. dnscrypt-proxy lets's us use a SOCKS5 proxy through which the DNS queries will be sent. We will use a Tor SOCKS5 proxy here. You can choose which protocols should be enabled and which ones should be disabled. There are two points:

I tried installing the RPM from the Fedora repos but it's out-of-date and there were no instructions on how to get it operational, so I went with the manual approach as per their wiki: https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy/wiki/Installation-linux

This is awesome, thanks -- going to look into that now. I found SmartDNS interesting and thought I would share it, it's pretty simple to setup. I can see why it's Chinese focused, they have "interesting" internet access over there :-).

I have been looking into DNS quite a bit lately (Unbound, etc), as DNS lookup performance has been pretty subpar lately. I'm in Perth, Australia, and we're pretty remote so our latency is meh at best, and Cloudflare performance has been all over the shop lately, I think they're having issues in WA). DNS can also cause really routing issues here sometimes as we get better latency to Singapore than Sydney, so we might get shunted off to SG.

I've also been using dnscrypt-proxy2 (https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy) for a while, but the above issues with Cloudflares DNS is what triggered me to look into other options.

I use a min-cache-ttl of 15 minutes, which seems to work well.

Thank you for sharing this tip about, looking into this now :).

Sure. I run dnscrypt_proxy behind a pihole. https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy

I have just published a dashboard to the grafana marketpalce that includes showing failed services. this comes with shift-mon

I love Victoriametrics and have an ansible role that setup Victoriametrics, Grafana, and Loki using podman on a Linux VM, and is super easy to run. The only thing is switching to datadog to on prem is your team might not have the time available to manage the system or setup something to watch the watcher like having the VM server send metrics to Grafana cloud.

Grafana cloud has a two week trial that should give you a good indication of what your usage is. If you have spare hardware self hosting can be easy here is my project that turns a vm into a monitoring stack based around grafana

This is query I use for host down alerts its not perfect source

Proxmox has the ability to ship metrics to influxdb or graphite without installing an agent. I use shift-mon which uses Victoriametrics and grafana under the hood

I use and love Victoriametrics, Telegraf, and grafana for monitoring proxmox, docker, and other infrastructure. Here is a repo that has an Ansible role to set all of it for you. Grafana cloud also has a free tier that is good for a lot of homelabs

I uploaded my grafana dashboard and extra config for opnsense to grafana's dashboard site. This a uses Victoriametrics for metrics, Loki for logs, and grafana for visualization. The Ansible roles to set it all up are found on gitlab

2 and 3 You can use the GUI in grafana to build Prometheus queries in grafana. I also prefer push over pull. I found out Victoriametrics is a thing and let's you push data as if it was influxdbv1 and add it to grafana as a promtheus data source. I deploy everything via ansible and here is the link to the repo

Prometheus might not be the best tool I prefer Telegraf and Victoriametrics so I can push metrics and still query it as if it where Prometheus. My setup can be found here