I have been running a YunoHost server for ~5 years now, but there is one question I have never been able to reply to: how loaded is my server?
I am a terrible administrator, I have no idea how to determine:
if my server is running smoothly
if the server is under stress, and why
what applications are the heaviest
if there is the possibility of installing more apps
when peaks of stress are happening and what is causing them
In general, I would like to understand the fundamentals of server monitoring: what are the most critical metrics and what do they mean? What parameters do I have to keep an eye on?
I installed Prometheus and Grafana, but then I realized I have absolutely no idea what to do next… Do you have any suggestions?
I thought about watching some video tutorials, but I would not really know how they would relate to YunoHost installations.
Feel free to send me any resource that comes to your mind! Once I will have learned the basics, I would be very happy to write some pointers about this in the documentation, or an essential YunoHost Monitoring tutorial.
Hi,
same here, i don’t really know how to monitor my little server. What i do is using htop, there you can see the load and ram usige. And sometimes not all services are running so i check yunohost diagnosis show --issues . On my old yunohost VPS with Debian11 i got email, when an issue was there.
My problem is not really what is not working, because indeed YunoHost’s own diagnosis works quite well. It’s more about what’s stressing/loading the hardware…
I use Monitorix for that purpose. It displays lots of graphs and allows you to select the time period. I haven’t yet configured it to send me emails about critical issues. That would be the next step.
I generally have phpsysinfo, htop, btop, iotop, watchdog installed on my servers.
I still didn’t find an easy way for log analysis and viewing logs on web interface. Some options are available on github but I didn’t find time to look at them.
