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Any recommendations for monitoring my servers?
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this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2023
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As someone who used Checkmk Raw (the free edition) and stopped because it's an absolute bastard to set up, I'm going to recommend Zabbix.
I'll specify. Installing Checkmk's agent on the servers was fine, but service discovery is completely unreliable (I could never get through a full discovery before it just hung on something unknown) and the web GUI is very difficult to navigate. Unfortunately most of the documentation only covers the paid version, and community support is pretty bad.
Switching to Zabbix was almost plug-and-play by comparison.
As someone reading this thread, I'm stuck in an endless loop.
I feel the same way about Zabbix. I'm not going to pretend that CheckMk is super intuitive but I guess I got over the hump because I don't find it difficult to setup, use, or manage.
The reality is for a homelab setup, probably something like uptime kuma would fit the bill for most people. I wanted something like Zabbix or CheckMk for all the detailed stats that Op is looking for. The longer I use it the more I realize I don't need them 99% of the time and I should probably give something like uptime kuma a try myself.