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Ask HN: Light self-hosted logs/metrics/traces dashboard?

20 points z33k | 1 comments | 15 Nov 24 10:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.223s | source

I’m aware of enterprise scale observability tools like ELK stack and datadog. I’d like to monitor my containerized (hobby) web app running on a $6/mo VPS. I’d rather self-host to keep the costs low, but grafana takes up gigabytes of memory that my VPS does not have. Are there any lighter alternatives? My hobby site can handle around 500 concurrent users and I don’t expect much growth.
1. GauntletWizard ◴[16 Nov 24 00:53 UTC] No.42153143[source]▶
Grafana doesn't take up gigabytes unless you're doing something crazy; it's about 100mb in my small business deployments. Which still might be too much for your $6 VPS! I would still highly recommend Prometheus, as it's native dashboard has gotten a lot better with 3.0