Let's try some Home Lab Monitoring - ft. Netdata

[@Nubinator]

I started looking for a service such as this and here you are with the perfectly timed video

[@RaidOwl]

I know...I've been watching you

[@Nubinator]

@@RaidOwl 😳

[@TheMichael2019]

i have been using netdata on all my home servers and have it linked to my discord to tell me when theres issues. i find it extremely useful

[@abetechtips]

Crazy that I had just reinstalled TrueNAS Scale for a small project and realized it was using NetData to show the dashboard info. I thought it was pretty neat and now that you have a video, I now have an idea on how I am going to monitor my lab!

[@pcislocked]

i set this up like yesterday and now you come up with a video... of course. tbh its too complicated for my liking but i still keep it running in case i need some random historical telemetry

[@brianHolliday-l8u]

just started my lab setup and have been using net data for awhile just gained a little knowledge thanks

[@DavidVincentSSM]

signed up for the homelab plan.. looks awesome so far to keep track of my k8s clusters!

[@NightHawkATL]

You got me and I broke down and signed up for the 5-node community version. I have some things I need to see if I can track down and Netdata was helpful in the past with these things. Having the cloud account also allows for more than just email and mobile app notifications as well.

[@jamestiller]

Great Job Brett, I actually get a little bit giddy whenever you release a new video because they are typically something I am thinking of doing but haven't figured out yet. . . . i am not worthy (bows and worships) haha love your stuff man, keep on keepin' on. and Geaux Tigers.

[@RaidOwl]

Geaux Tigers 💪🏼

[@nickpelov]

I don't see why I need to use their cloud (why it's not optional) when everything is hosted locally.

[@LegionInfanterie]

I working with netdata for long time, and is very usefull

[@jonjohnson2844]

I don’t want to pay for software that just works, I want free software with security vulnerabilities that is buggy as hell and will randomly stop being supported.

[@saiyantwan]

been using this for years but i have yet to use it to it's fullest extent

[@jonnie0rtiz]

What software/website do you use to create your network diagrams? They look slick!

[@RaidOwl]

Keynote on MacOS

[@jonnie0rtiz]

@@RaidOwl Thanks! I'll give that a try. Is your daily driver a Macbook?

[@RaidOwl]

@@jonnie0rtiz Yep

[@BLiNKx86]

Dang they even have an ansible playbook! $90.... 🤔

[@teagancollyer]

Thank you for identyfing that I am indeed a Pie Chart 😂😂

[@Kumalski97]

Can it connect do something like iDRAC? Or it only can read from VMs or bare metal nodes?

[@joelsmith4709]

Was anyone else disappointed that he spelled it "Alvin" instead of "Owlvin"?

[@robertbishop7078]

I have been wanting to monitor my homelab servers for awhile, but was looking for something to let me know when the basement electrical circtuit breaker tripped in the basement. Does not happen often, but impacts sump pump, electric controls on the gas water heater. So can be impactful when it trips. My internet was on this circuit until I pulled in a new circuit. Last week the circuit tripped and did not notice for 24 hours, as the modem was on the new circuit, nothing was on that circuit to let me know. Nothing like a cold shower to make it a priority. I have 2 Raspberry Pis on it, setting up Netadata on them right now. I have expereienced 1 Pi become unresponsive, while possible, having 2 Pis go down at the same time is unlikely. Now I would get notified. Have the Netdata app on the phone.

[@CampRusso]

🤔 if the cloud piece is just a portal to your data stored locally. I'm surprised no one has figured out how to host that locally.

[@RaidOwl]

You technically can. Nothing is stopping your from setting up a reverse proxy to point directly to a parent mode agent…it’s just a bit more complicated and resource intensive.

[@CampRusso]

@@RaidOwl Bah! to complicated. I'll just try the Community tier. I've consolidated down to just 3 pieces of hardware. 🤓 🤔 I'll have to research how I can use my homeassistant dashboard to see all these metrics. I'm trying to use that as my one-stop shop for the whole sha-bang.

[@kkowarkar]

Why not install wsl on windows and the agent installed in that

[@RaidOwl]

Not sure that would work…maybe

[@darthkielbasa]

My favorite part of closed source is complaining about it

[@WilReid]

What's amazing is that you're amazed a piece of software just works half decently right after install. FOSS has had this problem for decades where the default configuration, if there even is one, is complete trash. It's a big problem to adoption imo and has been. A good config file is as important as good code. Most devs never seem to realize that unfortunately.

[@RaidOwl]

Yeah that is pretty amazing

[@darthkielbasa]

Set it aaaaand forget it

[@faizannabi7540]

Man I wanted to monitor my plex win 11 server but I need another linux PC and more config makes it useless for me.

[@meteailesi]

İf there is 249 $lifetime license like unraid , I would take that deal..

[@EViL3666]

I gave up.. it was just too overwhelming... 90% of the data, I had no use for..

[@RaidOwl]

Yeah I get that

[@jeffnew1213]

I looked at Netdata a while back with an eye toward deploying it in my home data center. I found it overly complex for my needs and almost a full-time occupation to maintain. If it works for you guys, great. It wasn't for me.

[@RaidOwl]

Yeah I tried it once before and had the same feeling. The cloud part really makes it super easy, but it's not free so that's the tradeoff.

[@MahdiHijazi]

Did you find a simpler alternatives? looking for one simpler and can't find any

[@jeffnew1213]

@@MahdiHijazi Oh, alerting. Nothing currently. I have a VM set up for Check_MK, which is what we use at work. As soon as I can get some time from our expert there, I'll start adding things. Part of the problem with monitoring, is a lot of hardware is powered down when not in use. Currently powered off: PoweEdge R750, vSAN cluster for four mini servers, remote cluster of three mini servers, pair of Minisforum MS-01 systems, three NASes, etc.

[@myfakeaccount4523]

You could probably set this all up in home assistant.

[@RaidOwl]

Yeah but I don’t wanna

[@Netist_]

lmao I'm not paying for a grafana dashboard, you're out of your mind

[@RaidOwl]

Then don’t? Lol