running a lemmy instance has learned me a lot about devops already!
I love playing around with this, the lemmy instance was a great reason. lemmyfly.org doesn’t have a lot of traffic yet, I think it can handle some more. Currently running on 2 vcpu/4gb ram.
After chatting to my devops colleague at work I wanted to set up a Grafana dashboard with metrics on the server. Seems it’s pretty pretty doable!
- I installed prometheus node_exporter on my lemmy server
- I created a second server at my VPS. Very cheap, and don’t think I’ll be running the Prometheus/Grafana 24/7 so I’ll just create a snapshot of it, destroy the server and re-create when wanted
- Created an internal private network so the instances can communicate without exposing ports to the public
- Installed Prometheus on the new prometheus server
- Installed Grafana
- log in to Grafana, admin:admin then change password
- Go to the Grafana home dashboard, click on + sign and click on Import. In Import via grafana.com, put the dashboard id 1860 (preset for all prometheus node_exporter metrics) and click on Load.
- Done!
Last 2 hours in the garden with a beer on the side, WFH FTW
I fell into the deep end with Grafana + Prometheus, went crazy with all the metrics and dashboard. But I got burnt out before I even began making alerts, so I just went with Netdata at the end.
lol I literally did this yesterday for my job, using dashboard 1860 too. I used a docker compose stack following their guide here.
Uuuh I absolutely love grafana. Worked half a year with it for my job. I am happy it worked out great for you.
Oh wow, I need to check this out. I might do this with LXC containers
Let us know your findings when you did!
