Hey great work, just wanted to add a point . Cloud option is not necessary, netdata supports parent- child (multiple) setup. So all child headless netdata agents can stream to single or multiple parents.thus Parent dashboard will show all child metrics in a centralised way.
I was getting excited until the cloud stuff came up. A standalone server cannot alert if it's down. So for monitoring you effectively need the web service, and there are lots of competitors in that space. That doesn't mean it isn't worth investigating, but it just becomes a cost/features comparison vs a lot of entrenched and featureful competition at that point. We really need a good/modern fully open source solution for this stuff. The grafana ecosystem has all the parts, but alerting is separate, and alerts aren't prebuilt, so you're never going to match what a fleshed out solution can provide.
There is a solution that does not require the cloud account. Choose one server or create only one for it and make it the parent for all the severs and ta-da!
Installing some kind of web server on each server/VM really sounds for me like overkill, especially the part where you need that cloud account to have and overview of everything monitored. What about monitoring other things in the infrastructure like switches, router, printer, firewalls etc ? What about CheckMK RAW edition ? Also based on Nagios but way more modern looking and quite hasslefree to set up.
Guess you are a Dr Who fan but still odd seeing a British Police box on a t-shirt worn by an American. Not sure if you are aware but in the days before two way radio there were many of these boxes in London, they had direct phone link to local police station. The boxes were locked and police officers had a key to unlock. Every so often officers would call in to advise control room of their location. Also boxes had a flashing light if the station wanted an officer to call in for some reason. We take much for granted nowadays with modern communication.
Great video about Netdata, already installed it once on a Synology NAS. Now I want to monitor 2 NAS, 2 PVE and a PBS. So should I use Netdata Cloud and can it check the barebones as well as the VMs and (Docker) CTs seperately. That would be great. I also use Uptime Kuma, but has limited functionality. Thanks so much for your great vids 🙏
You answered a question I was going to ask bout whether it co-existed with various Proxmox products. This is definitely going on my to-do list at work and at home.
I just wish there was a simple, lightweight WebUI to let me monitor my homelab NAS drives. All I want is a quick graphic glance at how full my drives are, and a simple early warning system for impending drive failure without having to read pages of cryptic SMART data. Scrutiny is EXACTLY what I'm looking for, but it seems to be broken now and the dev seems to have abandoned it in the past year. Netdata is pretty, but it's sooooo over-engineered for what I need. It's looking like Netdata is probably the solution I'll go with, but it has so much more crammed into it than I really care to have.
Dude you teach me stuff all the time! I had heard about netdata but thought it was some cli/ncurses type tool. This is great for my HA-Router project, gone try it!
What if I already have a Web service running on the intended server? Say I have a self-hosted GitLab Server installed, will it break anything if I install Netdata on the same machine?
H❤i Jay, I love your movies, thanks a lot. After using Nagios for over 15 years, i switched to CheckMK (spin-off). Never looked back. There is also a free core version, but also a free full version (with limited checks, but fulltime functionality). Just my 2 cents. Keep Up the good work. Greets from NL.
"Net Data says that everything you have access to today for free, will always be free" - If I had 1 penny for every time I have heard this before and was not true, I would be a millionaire.....
Are you kidding me, one dashboard for each server unless you pay for cloud. How can you even compare this to zabbix and nagios?! I want the 11 minutes you wasted of my life back.
I've recommended your channel to so many people, genuinely think your content is great because of its educational benefits!
Hey great work, just wanted to add a point . Cloud option is not necessary, netdata supports parent- child (multiple) setup. So all child headless netdata agents can stream to single or multiple parents.thus Parent dashboard will show all child metrics in a centralised way.
Thank you, I appreciate that!
I was getting excited until the cloud stuff came up. A standalone server cannot alert if it's down. So for monitoring you effectively need the web service, and there are lots of competitors in that space. That doesn't mean it isn't worth investigating, but it just becomes a cost/features comparison vs a lot of entrenched and featureful competition at that point.
We really need a good/modern fully open source solution for this stuff. The grafana ecosystem has all the parts, but alerting is separate, and alerts aren't prebuilt, so you're never going to match what a fleshed out solution can provide.
There is a solution that does not require the cloud account. Choose one server or create only one for it and make it the parent for all the severs and ta-da!
Good to see that you got rid of that crappy background!
Installing some kind of web server on each server/VM really sounds for me like overkill, especially the part where you need that cloud account to have and overview of everything monitored. What about monitoring other things in the infrastructure like switches, router, printer, firewalls etc ? What about CheckMK RAW edition ? Also based on Nagios but way more modern looking and quite hasslefree to set up.
Guess you are a Dr Who fan but still odd seeing a British Police box on a t-shirt worn by an American. Not sure if you are aware but in the days before two way radio there were many of these boxes in London, they had direct phone link to local police station. The boxes were locked and police officers had a key to unlock. Every so often officers would call in to advise control room of their location. Also boxes had a flashing light if the station wanted an officer to call in for some reason. We take much for granted nowadays with modern communication.
Good as always! Thanks, Learn Linux TV!👏👌
I'm really into Zabbix and Grafana, but netdata locally on each server is quite interesting. How good is it with lxc machines?
Great video about Netdata, already installed it once on a Synology NAS. Now I want to monitor 2 NAS, 2 PVE and a PBS. So should I use Netdata Cloud and can it check the barebones as well as the VMs and (Docker) CTs seperately. That would be great. I also use Uptime Kuma, but has limited functionality.
Thanks so much for your great vids 🙏
You answered a question I was going to ask bout whether it co-existed with various Proxmox products. This is definitely going on my to-do list at work and at home.
@@jeremyleik3802 I'm running it for my proxmox instances
BTW, there is a plan for on-premise installation, $3 per install/mo
I just wish there was a simple, lightweight WebUI to let me monitor my homelab NAS drives. All I want is a quick graphic glance at how full my drives are, and a simple early warning system for impending drive failure without having to read pages of cryptic SMART data. Scrutiny is EXACTLY what I'm looking for, but it seems to be broken now and the dev seems to have abandoned it in the past year. Netdata is pretty, but it's sooooo over-engineered for what I need. It's looking like Netdata is probably the solution I'll go with, but it has so much more crammed into it than I really care to have.
Can I check traffic and connected IPs with it ?
Dude you teach me stuff all the time! I had heard about netdata but thought it was some cli/ncurses type tool. This is great for my HA-Router project, gone try it!
What if I already have a Web service running on the intended server? Say I have a self-hosted GitLab Server installed, will it break anything if I install Netdata on the same machine?
Man, you're damn good with what you do..... Kudos
Greta presentation...looking at Netdata presently.
Nagios. Oldie but a goodie. It's still great IMO.
Absolutely marvellous, and love the doctor Who T-Shirt
Thank you. acabo de instalar una virtual con netdata y al momento solo visualizo monitoreo de servidor local. Seguiré probrando.
do you have a setup guide for nagios core?
Do you have any plans to do a video or maybe series on Nagios? (Core or XI?)
Does Netdata have a REST API built in?
Thank you for uploading this video. Perfect explication and you resolve so many doubts I had
Hmmm... we've heard the "forever free " claim a few times before, haven't we... never ended up working out that way.
Netdata is great, but don't try putting it on smaller pi's/SBC's like pi zero, or radxa pi S
is it very heavy on resources?
@@octopusonfire100No
Cant wait to try it.
H❤i Jay,
I love your movies, thanks a lot.
After using Nagios for over 15 years, i switched to CheckMK (spin-off).
Never looked back.
There is also a free core version, but also a free full version (with limited checks, but fulltime functionality).
Just my 2 cents.
Keep Up the good work.
Greets from NL.
please could you tell me how to remove netdata from my system,Linux mint (Victoria)
Thx for the video, what about a nagios serie?
Is netdata cloud free too?
I want to join your comunnity. Where I can sign?
Great content!
Jay my brother, can you please make a series on Either Nagios OR Zabbix ?
It would be a big big help to IT persons like us.
I'm a zabbix fan I have history I control it not someone else. And I can auto alert to other systems eg even SMS alerts
"Net Data says that everything you have access to today for free, will always be free" - If I had 1 penny for every time I have heard this before and was not true, I would be a millionaire.....
Thanks alot ❤❤
holy hell thank you
Are you kidding? "completely free" if you don't use their cloud... Useless...
Free up to 5 nodes
it consumes soooo much memory :(
Hermann Branch
5 devices using community edition is useless…
Are you kidding me, one dashboard for each server unless you pay for cloud. How can you even compare this to zabbix and nagios?! I want the 11 minutes you wasted of my life back.
You missed to say You really like Netdata.. JK! Peace!
Ew, cloud, no.
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