I know dashboards are super trendy, but I’d love to hear from those who are not using them. I personally use FreshRSS to keep track of as much as possible, along with Uptime Kuma and plain old bookmarks. Perhaps there is a better overview solution, but I also love filtering what I see to not feel overwhelmed. or spammed, by information.
I don’t see how people can go without using dashboards. Considering I’m in America, I use them just about any time I go anywhere, as nearly all automobiles have them.
Real answer: I just have a script that updates everything. I run it manually when stuff needs updating. If a service goes down, I notice when it’s not accessible.
Never used a dashboard… I just manage my services on the cli with plain docker commands.
Can you hear the fan? If no, it’s probably fine.
Oh man, I thought it was “just” me 🤣 To be fair, the light counts as well (Qnap).
service still up = no problem
Can’t access service = problem, better ssh inSimple as
If a service falls in a server and no one is around to hear it, does it actually matter?
Great way to find services you really don’t need to be running.
Restart-always
Then avoid looking at your log files
let us learn quantum mechanics
Well yeah, it means the system can’t keep torrentin’ stuff!
ssh only after a reboot doesn’t solve the problem, of course
Well, I ssh in to reboot, so.
i am un-admining. free-range artisanal services wherever i happen to drop them. hell i don’t even know what’s running and what’s not until i try to access something.
i manage tech all day so my home tech is nothing but abject chaos and i’m ok with that. i have backups and i can go without if needed.
i am un-admining
Pretty much this. I just manually handle stuff when needed. I already work at IT so this feels quite liberating, the last thing I want is to annoy myself more, and the stuff I manage is not Critical™.
Set of cron jobs that check services, then send a Matrix message if there’s an issue.
For the cron jobs, I pipe
stderrto another script that watches those and does the same.If all fails, and internet is unavailable and the router crashes, a Pi will toggle a relay, cutting and resupplying power.
If something goes down my kids will be a more immediate and annoying alerting tool than anything I’ve used professionally.
Seconded…
I have just reduced the number of services to the couple I actually use, which I mostly remember exist. I have my own domain, so each service is service.mydomain.tld
Same for me. I use most of my services multiple times a week, so I find out pretty quickly if one isn’t working.
Same here 🙂 Last 3 times, things have broken because zfs raid on usb-connected DAS is not a great idea 😅😅
Even though Level1Tech said it works 😶🫣 https://youtu.be/GmQdlLCw-5k from 11:11 . Maybe terramaster use bad usb chipset.
I used a hodge-podge of chinesium parts and leftover drives to create a DAS system that hooks up to an HBA via DAC. I’m actually kinda surprised how stable it’s all been.
I’m not, really. I run docker-compose and it runs. That’s it.
I want to believe I’m a half step ahead with lazydocker
Users, monitoring your services for free since internet exists
I call an api in technitium to register dns for all services when they are instantiated, and route everything through an nginx reverse proxy - Sonarr.internal.tld for example
I don’t use any kind of monitoring Or dashboards
If I had time to make dashboards, I wouldn’t waste it making dashboards. Most of the stuff I have just works without a lot of attention, and that’s the way I like it.
I just wait for someone to scream if it breaks.
I just use Homepage as a bookmark/landing page so I remember what containers/services I have up and running so that I don’t need to check via terminal/portainer. Portainer/docker-compose files for managing services and that’s pretty much it. If I was using a dashboard I feel like I’d be wasting more time on an already time consuming hobby.
If Plex doesn’t add new shows/movies/music then I take a look at my services that should be adding stuff for Plex to serve up. That’s pretty much it these days. I had a few pinned tabs in my browser for some of them so can see if they aren’t working if I click on them to add/change something.
I was using homepage but it seems to cause docker to die a LOT on my server.
I mucked around with so many dashboards, homarr, homepage, dashy but settled on glance
Mainly because it’s minimalist and mostly text based. Handles my RSS feeds and anything that I want render I can usually vibe using the custom API widget.
