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xsrv
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Do you have an LDAP server setup?
Yes, OpenLDAP installed from this ansible role
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Logrotate appreciation
It's dead easy to use TCP/SSL instead of UDP to forward logs. Example rsyslog config
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Simple way to centralize my server logs?
I use rsyslog for that since it's the default in Debian. Configuring forwarding is very simple, a single file in /etc/rsyslog.d/forwarding.conf [1]. Note that this setup uses TLS to encrypt messages so you need to create the relevant certificates (I use self-signed certs). Unencrypted TCP or UDP is simpler, but less secure.
- YUnoHost alternative?
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Beginner's Guide to Open LDAP?
This ansible role (check the tasks/ directory) gives a good breakdown of what is needed to setup a basic LDAP server and authentication service
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Samba shares without managing a DC
I use samba in standalone mode with or without LDAP auth https://github.com/nodiscc/xsrv/tree/master/roles/samba
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SSO for all the services?
It's not "hard" but understanding the concepts (DIT, common name, distinguished name...) helps. Check https://github.com/nodiscc/xsrv/tree/master/roles/openldap the tasks at https://github.com/nodiscc/xsrv/blob/master/roles/openldap/tasks/openldap.yml and https://github.com/nodiscc/xsrv/blob/master/roles/openldap/tasks/populate.yml should give you a breakdown of what needs to be done to get a minimal LDAP server running
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Practical exercises to learn ansible : how to install a monitoring stack ? 1 - node exporter
Example role that does this (single-node rocketchat deployment)
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Beginner confused about DNS stuff
Also is a Raspberry Pi 4 4GB powerful enough to host xsrv?
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xsrv — Install and manage self-hosted services/applications, on your own server(s)
open the playbook with xsrv edit-playbook (example playbook), uncomment the nodiscc.xsrv.nextcloud role
vector
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Vector: A high-performance observability data pipeline
Datadog bought Timber Technologies (creators of Vector) two years ago. https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/datadog-acquires-timber-techn...
Timber definitely intended to just rock out & demolish everything else out there with their agent/forwarder/aggregator tech. But it wasn't a competitive play against OTel, in my humble opinion. Timber's whole shtick is that it integrates with everything, with really flexible/good glue logic in-between. A competent multi-system (logging, metrics, eventually traces) fluentd++. OTel - I want to believe - would have been part of that original vision.
It's just taking a really really long time. One can speculate how direction & velocity might have changed since the Datadog acquisition. The lack of tracing (anywhere except Datadog, so far) materializing has been a hard hard hard & sad thing to see. OG https://github.com/vectordotdev/vector/issues/1444 and newer https://github.com/vectordotdev/vector/issues/17307
Vector is fantastic software. Currently running a multi-GB/s log pipeline with it. Vector agents as DaemonSets collecting pod and journald logs then forwarding w/ vector's protobuf protocol to a central vector aggregator Deployment with various sinks - s3, gcs/bigquery, loki, prom.
The documentation is great but it can be hard to find examples of common patterns, although it's getting better with time and a growing audience.
My pro-tip has been to prefix your searches with "vector dev A recent contribution added an alternative to prometheus pushgateway that handles counters better: https://github.com/vectordotdev/vector/issues/10304#issuecom...
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About reading logs
We don't pull logs, we forward logs to a centralized logging service.
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Self hosted log paraer
opensearch - amazon fork of Elasticsearch https://opensearch.org/docs/latestif you do this an have distributed log sources you'd use logstash for, bin off logstash and use vector (https://vector.dev/) its better out of the box for SaaS stuff.
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Show HN: Homelab Monitoring Setup with Grafana
I think there's nothing currently that combines both logging and metrics into one easy package and visualizes it, but it's also something I would love to have.
Vector[1] would work as the agent, being able to collect both logs and metrics. But the issue would then be storing it. I'm assuming the Elastic Stack might now be able to do both, but it's just to heavy to deal with in a small setup.
A couple of months ago I took a brief look at that when setting up logging for my own homelab (https://pv.wtf/posts/logging-and-the-homelab). Mostly looking at the memory usage to fit it on my synology. Quickwit[2] and Log-Store[3] both come with built in web interfaces that reduce the need for grafana, but neither of them do metrics.
- [1] https://vector.dev
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Lightweight logging on RPi?
I would recommend that you run vector as a systems service so you don't have to worry about managing it. Here is a basic config to do that - https://github.com/vectordotdev/vector/blob/master/distribution/systemd/vector.service .
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Monitoring traefik access logs easily
You could have a look at Grafana Loki, it's easy to run (single binary for a small setup). Shipping your logs can be done by Promtail or something like Vector. They're both lightweight log shippers with support for Loki.
- Ask HN: How to build an image search service?
What are some alternatives?
graylog - Free and open log management
Fluentd - Fluentd: Unified Logging Layer (project under CNCF)
agent - Vendor-neutral programmable observability pipelines.
syslog-ng - syslog-ng is an enhanced log daemon, supporting a wide range of input and output methods: syslog, unstructured text, queueing, SQL & NoSQL.
OpenSearch - 🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
tracing - Application level tracing for Rust.
qryn - qryn is a polyglot, high-performance observability framework for ClickHouse. Ingest, store and analyze logs, metrics and telemetry traces from any agent supporting Loki, Prometheus, OTLP, Tempo, Elastic, InfluxDB and many more formats and query transparently using Grafana or any other compatible client.
thanos - Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project.
vouch-proxy - an SSO and OAuth / OIDC login solution for Nginx using the auth_request module
opensearch - OpenSearch is a collection of simple formats for the sharing of search results.
Yacht - A web interface for managing docker containers with an emphasis on templating to provide 1 click deployments. Think of it like a decentralized app store for servers that anyone can make packages for.
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