Show HN: Homelab Monitoring Setup with Grafana

• VictoriaMetrics

  97 10,826 9.9 Go

  VictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database

  

I've found VictoriaMetrics all-in-one binary to be perfect size for home at the very least for metrics gathering.

Supports Prometheus querying and few other formats for ingesting so any knowledge bout "how to get data into prometheus" applies pretty much 1:1 + their own vmagent is pretty advanced. Not related to company in any way, just a happy user.

https://victoriametrics.com/

• helm-charts

  97 4,637 9.7 Mustache

  Prometheus community Helm charts

  

https://github.com/prometheus-community/helm-charts/tree/mai...

Good luck! It's a lot.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• vector

  96 16,427 9.9 Rust

  A high-performance observability data pipeline.

  

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

• quickwit

  64 6,052 9.8 Rust

  Cloud-native search engine for observability. An open-source alternative to Datadog, Elasticsearch, Loki, and Tempo.

  

• hddtemp

  1 8 0.0 C

  Hard disk temperature tool (new hddtemp upstream) (by vitlav)

• openobserve

  38 9,368 9.9 Rust

  🚀 10x easier, 🚀 140x lower storage cost, 🚀 high performance, 🚀 petabyte scale - Elasticsearch/Splunk/Datadog alternative for 🚀 (logs, metrics, traces, RUM, Error tracking, Session replay).

  

https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve

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