Prometheus+Grafana is my go-to. You can also add Drilldown plugin to Grafana and it will monitor Docker logs.
Prometheus is incredibly versatile and widely used, so a lot of projects support metrics export to it, so IMO is your safest blind bet.
For even more custom behaviour, you can create very simple Python scripts that send data to Prometheus.
Prometheus is a metric scrapper, it just recollects metrics from either its own computer or another one. If you want to monitor something, you also need that something to publish metrics, so they can be scrapped by Prometheus.
Thus if you want to monitor even just a single computer, you need node-exporter to publish the metrics, and Prometheus to gather them. Then you can use Grafana to create beautiful dashboards (or use community’s), and even add alarms to it.
You should give NewPipe or Tubular (NewPipe fork with sponsor blocker) a try, it provides a better user experience.
laughs in NewPipe
I’ve done some of that stuff in Python, and n8n is just lovely, far simpler. You can also add a node that runs Python code in n8n, so you only gain simplicity, but lose almost nothing.
The first thing I opened to the internet was a SSH server. 28 minutes after opening it, I started getting constant entry attempts.
Thanks a lot!
Thanks!
Thanks for the response. I have a question
Given the tight budget
I can increase the budget, but I though that $200USD would be enough to get me starter, given that the 200 don’t include the drives. If I were to increase it, what would you recommend?
Thanks!
I’m in shock. We lost a truly amazing player, teacher and person. RIP Danya.
The most ridiculous thing in the conversations I read was someone arguing that the fact that Anduril has a member at SC (Steering Committee) weakens their position. The mental gymnastic is so insane to me because it completely naively expect people who have a conflict of interest to do the right thing. What if they don’t ?
The argument there was that they would be excluded of any votes related to said company.
I don’t think the problematic political part is a person basically saying “Oh, I’m queer btw”, but the mod team redacting it.
I also think that trying to supress political discussion in the forums of an OS literally called Ubuntu is beyond ironic: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_philosophy
Reports are usually done for the past year. 2025 has not finished, so no day of making a complete report.
This is probably the wrong post to ask this question, so sorry in advance.
I have a dual boot Linux + Windows. Jellyfin runs wonderfully on muy Linux partition with docker-compose. Anybody knows how can I clone it in my Windows partition, such that configs, metada and accounts remain the same? I’ve failed to do this, and only the media volume remaines identical on both OS.
ike if there’s a risk of running alongside self-host software like Plex and jellyfin
I don’t see why there should be any problem, as they use different ports. Plus I’ve had no troubles running a Jellyfin and Navidrome instances, plus some other self-hosted services alongisde Snowflake.
I’m really glad to have helped you :). Tor is very mystified, but an awesome tool, and very neat from a technical point of view. In case you haven’t seen them, I recommend these 2 amazing videos from Computerphile: How TOR works and TOR Hidden Services
Not a node, but a proxy. Entry node’s IPs in Tor are publicly known, so they are easy to censor. With Snowflake you create a proxy (bridge) between a censored user and an entry node, and since your IP is not listed as a node, you help the user bypass the censorship.
In theory, nope. But if the user is doing something bad, a prosecutor could argue you helped them to do so. I don’t know about any case like this involving Snowflake, and I am not a lawyer. You could be a target if you were to host material, which is not the case with Snowflake.
In case it helps, I’ve been running the extension with no trouble that I’m aware of for a few years.
Okay, I see. Thanks for the detailed explanation.
Wouldn’t a rolling distro be enough forma that?
Agree, but this setup (node-exporter + Prometheus + Grafana) allows for a lot of expansion and customization. I’m sure there are simpler tools that tell you your computer status, and it’s up to you to see which fits more your use-case.
I’ve felt that way before. But in this case of node-exporter and Prometheus, it’s way simpler. You don’t even need Docker, and the installation for both tools is basically a single line that you can copy and paste from their documentation.
Configuring Prometheus to accept node-exporter is a bit harder I admit, but again you can simply copy and paste the documentation example. The whole process should take like ~10 minutes if you follow the documentation.