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What's a good alternative to Prometheus when pulling stats is impractical? Say I want to monitor a personal laptop like I would a server. It will change network

What's a good alternative to Prometheus when pulling stats is impractical? Say I want to monitor a personal laptop like I would a server. It will change networks and IP addresses, so pulling would be impractical to configure, whereas the laptop could easily(?) push its stats to a remote server.

cortesoft 6y ago
Use a push gateway?
bvrmn 6y ago
You can use push approach. Like graphite. Grafana has excellent support of graphite queries. Also graphite has low-footprint implementation https://github.com/baverman/hisser https://github.com/baverman/hisser
molecule 6y ago
Telegraf + InfluxDB?
- abhishekjha 6y ago
  This is my setup on all my raspberrypis. I have not be been able to figure out how to monitor a cluster though. I saw that grafana free tier doesn’t allow a cluster of servers getting monitored. I have telegraf + influxdb + grafana installed on all my servers.
  - michaelmcdonald 6y ago
    Could you expand on what you mean by: > grafana free tier doesn’t allow a cluster of servers getting monitored. Is there a particular aspect of the cluster you're missing? Is it that you don't want individual server metrics?
    - abhishekjha 6y ago
      I have telegraf + influxdb + grafana-server installed on each of my Rpis giving me multiple dashboards. I want only one grafana-server dashboard where all the telegraf metrics could be seen.
- valyala 6y ago
  vmagent + victoriametrics :)
MetalMatze 6y ago
Prometheus supports writing (replicating) data to a remote endpoint on a per scrape basis with a protocol called remote-write. You can pretty easily set that up on any Prometheus instance. There are quite some implementations to receive those remote-write requests: https://prometheus.io/docs/operating/integrations/#remote-endpoints-and-storage https://prometheus.io/docs/operating/integrations/#remote-en... You're probably exactly looking for something like that. In fact, I've given a talk about a similar scenario at the KubeCon San Diego: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrcfxkbJH20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrcfxkbJH20 Disclosure: I work on Thanos and Thanos Receiver which implements that protocol.
- bacondude3 6y ago
  Oh, I had no idea about that. Thanks!
cassianoleal 6y ago
I've been using ZeroTier [0] so whenever my laptop is online, it's also accessible by Prometheus so it can be scraped. I run ZeroTier in a container on my router, and on each "road warrior" that needs LAN access (laptop, phone...). The caveat is that I have no metrics when the laptop is offline but that doesn't happen very often anyway. [0] https://www.zerotier.com/ https://www.zerotier.com/
- bacondude3 6y ago
  That looks like a really cool solution. Thanks for the suggestion!
valyala 6y ago
You can run lightweight vmagent [1] on your laptop. The vmagent collects all the metrics from your laptop and then sends them to remote storage when connection to the remote storage is available. It can send data to any remote storage system that support Prometheus remote_write protocol [2]. [1] https://victoriametrics.github.io/vmagent.html https://victoriametrics.github.io/vmagent.html [2] https://prometheus.io/docs/operating/integrations/#remote-endpoints-and-storage https://prometheus.io/docs/operating/integrations/#remote-en...
- bacondude3 6y ago
  That looks like a really promising solution. Thanks!
ncrmro 6y ago
If you use wireguard you can tell Prometheus to scrape your ip on the wireguard network

cortesoft 6y ago

Use a push gateway?

bvrmn 6y ago

You can use push approach. Like graphite. Grafana has excellent support of graphite queries. Also graphite has low-footprint implementation https://github.com/baverman/hisser https://github.com/baverman/hisser

molecule 6y ago

Telegraf + InfluxDB?

abhishekjha 6y ago
This is my setup on all my raspberrypis. I have not be been able to figure out how to monitor a cluster though. I saw that grafana free tier doesn’t allow a cluster of servers getting monitored. I have telegraf + influxdb + grafana installed on all my servers.
- michaelmcdonald 6y ago
  Could you expand on what you mean by: > grafana free tier doesn’t allow a cluster of servers getting monitored. Is there a particular aspect of the cluster you're missing? Is it that you don't want individual server metrics?
  - abhishekjha 6y ago
    I have telegraf + influxdb + grafana-server installed on each of my Rpis giving me multiple dashboards. I want only one grafana-server dashboard where all the telegraf metrics could be seen.
valyala 6y ago
vmagent + victoriametrics :)

MetalMatze 6y ago

Prometheus supports writing (replicating) data to a remote endpoint on a per scrape basis with a protocol called remote-write. You can pretty easily set that up on any Prometheus instance. There are quite some implementations to receive those remote-write requests: https://prometheus.io/docs/operating/integrations/#remote-endpoints-and-storage https://prometheus.io/docs/operating/integrations/#remote-en... You're probably exactly looking for something like that. In fact, I've given a talk about a similar scenario at the KubeCon San Diego: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrcfxkbJH20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrcfxkbJH20 Disclosure: I work on Thanos and Thanos Receiver which implements that protocol.

bacondude3 6y ago
Oh, I had no idea about that. Thanks!

cassianoleal 6y ago

I've been using ZeroTier [0] so whenever my laptop is online, it's also accessible by Prometheus so it can be scraped. I run ZeroTier in a container on my router, and on each "road warrior" that needs LAN access (laptop, phone...). The caveat is that I have no metrics when the laptop is offline but that doesn't happen very often anyway. [0] https://www.zerotier.com/ https://www.zerotier.com/

bacondude3 6y ago
That looks like a really cool solution. Thanks for the suggestion!

valyala 6y ago

You can run lightweight vmagent [1] on your laptop. The vmagent collects all the metrics from your laptop and then sends them to remote storage when connection to the remote storage is available. It can send data to any remote storage system that support Prometheus remote_write protocol [2]. [1] https://victoriametrics.github.io/vmagent.html https://victoriametrics.github.io/vmagent.html [2] https://prometheus.io/docs/operating/integrations/#remote-endpoints-and-storage https://prometheus.io/docs/operating/integrations/#remote-en...

bacondude3 6y ago
That looks like a really promising solution. Thanks!

ncrmro 6y ago

If you use wireguard you can tell Prometheus to scrape your ip on the wireguard network