I’ve been setting up and testing prometheus and grafana for about a week now, since that seems to be the universally accepted solution for self-hosted monitoring. But I’m starting to question why it is so accepted. On top of prometheus not seeming useful on it’s own (needing grafana to visualize and alertmanager for alerts) it feels like with each thing i want to monitor I have to spin up another docker container to export/gather the data. There are other options like LibreNMS that seems to have all that built into one container. So what does this Prometheus/Grafana stack have that other monitoring services don’t? Is it really worth having to set up each of these specialized exporters and dashboards? Or am I mistaken that it’s the main solution everyone uses? Are you using something different for monitoring?
Part of self hosting is to decide yourself what you want or need.
I am very happy with Beszel (https://github.com/henrygd/beszel) as it is enough for my use case.
That being said compatibility is huge in the GrafProm Stack. A lot of software has Prometheus compatible end points which can then be visualised with Grafana.
Want to know how many requests are hitting your server? Count Diamond blocks mined per player on a Minecraft server? Want to track your weight and workout time? Or do you want to count yellow cars driving by your house? Grafana & Prometheus got you.