I know dashboards are super trendy, but I’d love to hear from those who are not using them. I personally use FreshRSS to keep track of as much as possible, along with Uptime Kuma and plain old bookmarks. Perhaps there is a better overview solution, but I also love filtering what I see to not feel overwhelmed. or spammed, by information.

    • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      i am un-admining

      Pretty much this. I just manually handle stuff when needed. I already work at IT so this feels quite liberating, the last thing I want is to annoy myself more, and the stuff I manage is not Critical™.

  • conrad82@lemmy.worldEnglish
    251·
    2 months ago

    I have just reduced the number of services to the couple I actually use, which I mostly remember exist. I have my own domain, so each service is service.mydomain.tld

    • credics@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      Same for me. I use most of my services multiple times a week, so I find out pretty quickly if one isn’t working.

      • conrad82@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        2 months ago

        Same here 🙂 Last 3 times, things have broken because zfs raid on usb-connected DAS is not a great idea 😅😅

        Even though Level1Tech said it works 😶🫣 https://youtu.be/GmQdlLCw-5k from 11:11 . Maybe terramaster use bad usb chipset.

        • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          I used a hodge-podge of chinesium parts and leftover drives to create a DAS system that hooks up to an HBA via DAC. I’m actually kinda surprised how stable it’s all been.

  • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
    221·
    2 months ago

    I’m not, really. I run docker-compose and it runs. That’s it.

  • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    131·
    2 months ago

    If I had time to make dashboards, I wouldn’t waste it making dashboards. Most of the stuff I have just works without a lot of attention, and that’s the way I like it.

    I just wait for someone to scream if it breaks.

  • communism@lemmy.mlEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    Never used a dashboard… I just manage my services on the cli with plain docker commands.

  • drkt@scribe.disroot.orgEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    I’ll notice it’s down when I try to access it and it doesn’t work. If it’s not down, there is nothing to manage 🙃

    I have documentation if I need to see everything at a glance. I don’t need a live-updating dashboard for that.

  • Fmstrat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    Set of cron jobs that check services, then send a Matrix message if there’s an issue.

    For the cron jobs, I pipe stderr to another script that watches those and does the same.

    If all fails, and internet is unavailable and the router crashes, a Pi will toggle a relay, cutting and resupplying power.

  • perishthethought@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    Does dockge count as a dashboard?

    'Cause I use that to quickly check on what’s running, what’s stopped. Then I do most of my mainenance in a terminal, via SSH to the server.

  • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    I tried portainer for a while, but it was almost useless to me, as I’d always end up in the command line anyway. So I dropped that and any other dashboard idea.

  • koala@programming.devEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    https://charity.wtf/2021/08/09/notes-on-the-perfidy-of-dashboards/

    Graphs and stuff might be useful for doing capacity planning or observing some trends, but most likely you don’t need either.

    If you want to know when something is down (and you might not need to know), set up alerts. (And do it well, you should only receive “actionable” alerts. And after setting alerts, you should work on reducing how many actionable things you have to do.)

    (I did set up Nagios to send graphs to Clickhouse, plotted by Grafana. But mostly because I wanted to learn a few things and… I was curious about network latencies and wanted to plan storage a bit long term. But I could live perfectly without those.)