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Does anyone have tips for managing/monitoring a few cheap VPS? I have one that I pay $4 a year for and only use it as a Syncthing middle between my laptop and p

by raybb 4y ago

Does anyone have tips for managing/monitoring a few cheap VPS? I have one that I pay $4 a year for and only use it as a Syncthing middle between my laptop and phone. I also have a few other small ones that I use for single purposes. However, I don't have a good way to see how much storage is on each VPS and the CPU utilization without sshing into them to check.

kenniskrag 4y ago
I use cockpit but maybe too much: https://cockpit-project.org/running https://cockpit-project.org/running
- MonkeyClub 4y ago
  I use cockpit widely as well. I too was initially concerned that it may be an overkill as well, but it solves so many more administrative problems than just metrics, that I’ve found it’s worth the few extra resources used.
susadmin 4y ago
I have heard Nagios works well for monitoring.
discordance 4y ago
https://github.com/MichaelBelgium/VPS-Monitor https://github.com/MichaelBelgium/VPS-Monitor
zer0tonin 4y ago
I would use telegraf (https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf) to gather the metrics you want from your servers. It has built-in functions to get metrics like disk usage, cpu, etc... From there I would export those metrics to a grafana+influxdb setup. But honestly this is because that's what I'm used to professionally. There might be simpler solutions around.
hu3 4y ago
where can I get a VPS for $4/year? I could use one for things like remote cronjobs.
- defrost 4y ago
  https://cron-job.org/en/faq/ https://cron-job.org/en/faq/ How much is the service of cron-job.org? Our service is entirely free of charge. ( Some resource limits apply )
  - gl-prod 4y ago
    How come its free?
    - newaccount74 4y ago
      Some people like helping others even if there's nothing in it for them. Like icanhazip.com
  - hu3 4y ago
    I use them and they are great. But I need longer timeout settings.
- nbk_2000 4y ago
  You can find Frantech servers for as little as $3.50/year here: https://my.frantech.ca/aff.php?aff=3460 https://my.frantech.ca/aff.php?aff=3460 This is the parent company of BuyVM. They have a very good reputation, but their stock goes up and down throughout the month. If you want a specific data-center location, wait until the first of the month when stock replenishes.
  - hoppyhoppy2 4y ago
    The servers at this affiliate link start at $3.50/month. Am I missing something? What service is $3.50/year?
    - 4y ago
megadeth 4y ago
Highly recommend https://hetrixtools.com https://hetrixtools.com.
dm 4y ago
If you're happy not having a home-grown open source solution, New Relic is essentially free if you don't have many servers and turn off extended metrics. If you start adding in more integrations, it's gonna cost you, but for basic monitoring and nice graphs hosted externally from your systems itself, it works nicely.
t_sawyer 4y ago
https://github.com/netdata/netdata https://github.com/netdata/netdata
m-o11y 4y ago
https://opsverse.io/observenow-observability/ https://opsverse.io/observenow-observability/ ...As close to free as possible since the cost is primarily driven by amount of ingestion. Works great for small setups with scope to grow over time! Disclaimer: I work there

by raybb 4y ago

kenniskrag 4y ago

I use cockpit but maybe too much: https://cockpit-project.org/running https://cockpit-project.org/running

MonkeyClub 4y ago
I use cockpit widely as well. I too was initially concerned that it may be an overkill as well, but it solves so many more administrative problems than just metrics, that I’ve found it’s worth the few extra resources used.

susadmin 4y ago

I have heard Nagios works well for monitoring.

discordance 4y ago

https://github.com/MichaelBelgium/VPS-Monitor https://github.com/MichaelBelgium/VPS-Monitor

zer0tonin 4y ago

I would use telegraf (https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf) to gather the metrics you want from your servers. It has built-in functions to get metrics like disk usage, cpu, etc... From there I would export those metrics to a grafana+influxdb setup. But honestly this is because that's what I'm used to professionally. There might be simpler solutions around.

hu3 4y ago

where can I get a VPS for $4/year? I could use one for things like remote cronjobs.

defrost 4y ago
https://cron-job.org/en/faq/ https://cron-job.org/en/faq/ How much is the service of cron-job.org? Our service is entirely free of charge. ( Some resource limits apply )
- gl-prod 4y ago
  How come its free?
  - newaccount74 4y ago
    Some people like helping others even if there's nothing in it for them. Like icanhazip.com
- hu3 4y ago
  I use them and they are great. But I need longer timeout settings.
nbk_2000 4y ago
You can find Frantech servers for as little as $3.50/year here: https://my.frantech.ca/aff.php?aff=3460 https://my.frantech.ca/aff.php?aff=3460 This is the parent company of BuyVM. They have a very good reputation, but their stock goes up and down throughout the month. If you want a specific data-center location, wait until the first of the month when stock replenishes.
- hoppyhoppy2 4y ago
  The servers at this affiliate link start at $3.50/month. Am I missing something? What service is $3.50/year?
  - 4y ago

megadeth 4y ago

Highly recommend https://hetrixtools.com https://hetrixtools.com.

dm 4y ago

If you're happy not having a home-grown open source solution, New Relic is essentially free if you don't have many servers and turn off extended metrics. If you start adding in more integrations, it's gonna cost you, but for basic monitoring and nice graphs hosted externally from your systems itself, it works nicely.

t_sawyer 4y ago

https://github.com/netdata/netdata https://github.com/netdata/netdata

m-o11y 4y ago

https://opsverse.io/observenow-observability/ https://opsverse.io/observenow-observability/ ...As close to free as possible since the cost is primarily driven by amount of ingestion. Works great for small setups with scope to grow over time! Disclaimer: I work there