I’m pretty new to selfhosting, but one thing that I know to take seriously is log collection. Since there are a lot of different type of logs (kernel log, application logs, etc) and logs come in many different formats (binary, json, strings) - it’s no easy task to collect them centrally and look through them whenever neccessarly.

I’ve looked at grafana and tried the agent briefly, but it wasn’t as easy as I thought (and it might be a too big tool for my needs). So I thought to ask the linuxlemmy community to get some inspiration.

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    1 year ago

    This has been on my radar for a while, and I keep putting it off. How are you liking it?

    Grafana’s Loki sounded incredibly useful and performant, with the added benefit of reducing storage requirements significantly under some situations.

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      1 year ago

      It is easier to deal with than the elastic stack, but unless you’re already familiar with log stacks, it is still a bit of a threshold to vet over before it starts paying off.