Ask HN: Best solution for homelab service monitoring?

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  • Grafana

    The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.

  • Grafana might be the right fit for you. It can be easily self-hosted: https://github.com/grafana/grafana

  • agent

    Vendor-neutral programmable observability pipelines. (by grafana)

  • And has an agent that can be run on the host to monitor it: https://github.com/grafana/agent

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • prometheus-operator

    Prometheus Operator creates/configures/manages Prometheus clusters atop Kubernetes

  • Personally I use kubernetes, k3s is kind of lightweight, with the Prometheus operator.

    https://k3s.io/

    https://prometheus-operator.dev/

    Kubernetes is not for everyone and is far from perfect but you already use Docker and you seem to seek many features offered by Kubernetes.

  • k3s

    Lightweight Kubernetes

  • Personally I use kubernetes, k3s is kind of lightweight, with the Prometheus operator.

    https://k3s.io/

    https://prometheus-operator.dev/

    Kubernetes is not for everyone and is far from perfect but you already use Docker and you seem to seek many features offered by Kubernetes.

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