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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: 0.201s | 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. KronisLV ◴[16 Nov 24 10:22 UTC] No.42155656[source]▶
For monitoring servers: Zabbix would work.

For APM across some popular stacks: Apache Skywalking might be worth a look (though probably with PostgreSQL instead of ElasticSearch).

For analytics: Matomo is good.

For uptime monitoring: Uptime Kuma is really good.

Consider a separate cheap VPS for the monitoring stack, whatever it might end up being, like something from Hetzner.