alloy

I was just commenting that I'm going to have to figure out how to migrate to Alloy now as Prom is nearing it's eol.

I FINALLY figured out how to drive the Grafana bus. I know, I know...pretty basic stuff. In the past I always drooled over dialed out dashboards I've seen. Charts, graphs, readouts, dials...but I never could quite wrap my head around it all.

Well, now I have charts, graphs, readouts, logs, dials, and it feels pretty good to have finally learned something new that I've been whacking away at for a while. The plus side is that the whole Graphana+Promtail+Loki stack sips lightly on my resources, whereas in the past, things like the ELK stack, Opensearch, Graylog, etc, really devoured a lot of resources. I really tried with those but just didn't like how ravenous of a RAM appetite they had.

I'm still using lnav. It's quick and dirty and gets the job done for logs. But if I want to look at data, with nice a prettyfied interface, I go look at Grafana. So now the process will be to, dial out and graph every last little thing until I suffer from info overload, and then ease it back to just what is necessary. It's a fucked up process, but it's how I do.

As my lady friend is apt to say: It's the little things.....

ETA: I have cAdvisor rockin' plus influxDB, and the the thing is only sipping like max 2 GB. I've got logs, dials, charts n' graphs. I got bitches in the living room gettin' it on....This is amazing for such little processing power.

You should be able to just add a scrape config to your existing deployment of prometheus

TIL Promtail is going EOL. I’ve been using it forever. Guess I’m gonna have to figure out how to migrate to alloy too if that’s meant to be its successor. At home and at work lol.

I've been interested in setting up a monitoring setup like this, mostly out of curiosity about what's going on when I'm not looking. But I know what the answer is and it's not as exciting as I'd like it to be.

Thank you for the reply. I guess I am thinking, why have multiple Prometheus instances running, eating up resources, when I could do it with just one.

I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news. I read up on it about an hour ago. Of course, just as I finally get things running, they switch horses. le sigh....c'est la vie

Thank you for the reply. I guess I am thinking, why have multiple Prometheus instances running, eating up resources, when I could do it with just one.

For sure. Simplifies querying the data too, since you won’t need to deal with multiple data sources in grafana.

Sorry I didn’t get back to you right away. But this is correct. I just have Prometheus scrape cAdvisor.