After three years with hosting at OVHcloud, finally moving monitoring stack from ssh + free -h to something proper. Evaluated:
- Netdata: beautiful, eats 150MB RAM on my 1GB KnownHost VPS. The graphs are nice but the agent is heavy
- Zabbix: enterprise horse, needs database, too much for homelab
- UptimeKuma: simple, Docker one-liner, but only uptime not metrics depth
Currently settled on Netdata with streaming to central node. The config for the parent:
[stream]
enabled = yes
destination = tcp:10.0.0.5:19999
api key = 11111111-2222-3333-4444-555555555555Anyone running lighter? The budget is tight, voilà.