Munin VS uptime-kuma

I rediscovered Munin. To my surprise it is written entirely in Perl. I remember Munin from years ago... it still seems healty and maintained and lies ready on your Deb-Repositories. So I followed the Easy Install Guide... which really is easy, but fails to mention that you need to install your own HTTP-Server to serve the HTML-reports.

A bit of background, which may make understanding my choices in this lib easier: Munin is a resource monitoring tool using rrdtool, usually run in a Server/Client Setup. The client accepts plugins which are just executables in a directory. Usually written in a scripting language, but it actually doesn't matter. Data is fetched every 5 minutes, plugins are first run with a config argument to spit out a munin graph config, followed by a run without arguments to present data. To support higher resolutions than just "every 5 minutes", graph config can contain config to tell munin one collects it every second. Then the fetching part needs to run as a daemon, writing a cache somewhere which gets output when munin wants the data.

Munin plugins and management script for monitoring various Pi-hole® statistics.

When you do not have enough power you would get errors because looking up the plots would simply fail. Sounds more that there is one disk which is slower. I had one 2TB external usb which was really slow and the latency of lookups was through the roof. Are you on linux ? Then install munin-monitoring.org it shows latency of the disks out of the box.

what os ? on linux install https://munin-monitoring.org/ it will give you disk latency information.

I'd say give Munin a try.

Munin plugins for monitoring Pi-hole®. Transforms a server into a powerful monitoring platform, as simple as one, two, three, ...four.

Your understanding is correct, unfortunately. Not only that, the developers are also reluctant to make 127.0.0.1:####:#### the default in their READMEs because UsEr cOnVeNiEnCe, e.g. https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/pull/3002 closed WONTFIX

I switched to Kuma recently, but it's not all roses either. Their Docker image is based on Debian 10 with Go 1.19 and they don't feel the need to update because "OS level bugs are seldomely exploitable"

https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/issues/4885

So host it on a separate machine and don't put any secrets in there

If you want more robust monitoring tool that has more ways to monitor your services, websites, beyond dead man’s switch method, check out uptime kuma.

Sigh Nix users.

I need to run uptime kuma, Here is Docker Compose: https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/blob/1.23.X/docker/d...

What is equivalent in Nix?

If you’d like something with a GUI for configuration, I’ve been using [Uptime Kuma](https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma) for a couple years now with an “internal” status page for all services in my homelab, and a “public” page for family to see the few services they would care about. I also think [Homepage](https://github.com/gethomepage/homepage) might be a good fit since it links to the services on the page, and has a little indicator dot for if it’s online or not.

Great choice of monitoring and analytics tools (Sentry, Axiom, Posthog and Uptime Kuma) coupled with amazing Slack integrations that allowed us to iron out any issues way before the traffic spike while the troubling features were still fresh from the oven.

You're looking for a dead man's switch. https://deadmanssnitch.com is a good hosted service or Uptime Kuma (https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma) can be configured to do the same thing.