Guide: How to add monitoring to your Cloudron server for free (RAM/Disk/etc.), using Netdata (5mn setup)

[jdaviescoates]

@AmbroiseUnly fyi afaik all those annoying hoops to jump through are sadly necessary to stop spam bots.

Once you have it all set-up (and have been given permission to fork) and have the credentials saved in your pw manager it's simple. But fair point that getting to that stage isn't as easy as it could be.

[girish]

@AmbroiseUnly What's your GitLab id? We have to bump the repo limit on our side and then you should be able to fork.

[AmbroiseUnly]

@girish said in Guide: How to add monitoring to your Cloudron server for free (RAM/Disk/etc.), using Netdata (5mn setup):

@AmbroiseUnly What's your GitLab id? We have to bump the repo limit on our side and then you should be able to fork.

5263

Thanks

[girish]

@AmbroiseUnly done, thanks

[AmbroiseUnly]

MR done

[AartJansen]

So just to be clear netdata is not a free solution, and you have to send your ssh credentials for the server to their platform.
So theres a risk that they get hacked and the credentials would be stolen...

I'm not really sold on the cost / risk / benefit of doing this.

[jdaviescoates]

@AartJansen said in Guide: How to add monitoring to your Cloudron server for free (RAM/Disk/etc.), using Netdata (5mn setup):

you have to send your ssh credentials for the server to their platform

Really?!?

[imc67]

@AartJansen where did you get that nonsense? Please proof with evidence.

[AartJansen]

@AmbroiseUnly said in Guide: How to add monitoring to your Cloudron server for free (RAM/Disk/etc.), using Netdata (5mn setup):

Paste and execute the command line in the Linux server you want to monitor (basically, your Cloudron server), you'll need to connect to it first (using SSH, most likely)

Sorry I misread this.

[AmbroiseUnly]

I'm the CTO of a few companies and I haven't noticed anything wrong regarding security.
Sorry my phrasing made you believe otherwise.

[AartJansen]

@AmbroiseUnly no, its my fault, I didn't read what you had written correctly.

[ekevu123]

@AmbroiseUnly Thank you for sharing this!

1. Netdata can also be self-hosted, correct? Did you try this or did you use the cloud-version only?
2. If I understand this correctly, this wouldn't contain the individual apps' logs, correct? So, if I wanted to monitor them as well, I would need to set up separate nodes, which would cost separately?

[AmbroiseUnly]

@ekevu123

1. yes, it seems self-hostable.
   https://github.com/netdata/netdata
   https://www.reddit.com/r/netdata/comments/1cjo9za/self_hosting_netdata/

2. I'm not sure about the technical details, but I don't believe it processes the apps logs indeed.
   It's more about monitoring of the system that is common for all computers.
   Although I noted it does check individual processes, like one of my Cloudron App was relying on Postgres and it notified me when the RAM about that particular process was too high, which helped me increase it (for that process) before running out.