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I wonder why Prometheus/Grafana are so popular in the monitoring stack. They seem to promote a culture of 'Hang a screen over there and stare at it'. I always
by hyperman1 3y ago
I wonder why Prometheus/Grafana are so popular in the monitoring stack. They seem to promote a culture of 'Hang a screen over there and stare at it'. I always have to do a lot of work finetuning them, and some important metric will be missing.
My experience with zabbix was just the opposite, BTW. Ugly, but practical. The defaults let you quickly set up monitoring, and then nagstamon or other alerting allows you to forget it exists until bad things happen. Then you browse trough the templated graphs where a spartan but interesting indicator of what happens will exist somewhere
- goodpoint 3y agoSpot on.
- tacker2000 3y agoI also think Zabbix is far superior and also mich easier to set up and maintain. The only thing it cant do is handle large amount of logs
- alentred 3y agoI don't think they promote the "Hang a screen over there and stare at it" approach. In our company we use both, but Promteheus has an Alertmanager and I only ever open the UI for debug when the alert is raised. In fact, I truly hope no one has a screen with Grafana in their office. I agree: if anyone has those - you are probably not doing it right.
- sevagh 3y agoPrometheus/Grafana doesn't have batteries included. Once you set up exporters and alerts and graphs, then you get something useful.