As in, when I watched YouTube tutorials, I often see YouTubers have a small widget on their desktop giving them an overview of their ram usage, security level, etc. What apps do you all use to track this?

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I currently use thr classic “Hu seems slow, checks basic things like disk usage and process CPU/RAM usage I’ll do a reboot to fix it for now”.

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Windows Server? )

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This is me. Can’t hurt to just do a reboot

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The fastest way? Probably netdata

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This. If you have more servers you can also get them all connected to a single UI where you can see all the Infos at once. With netdata cloud

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Just set this up yesterday. I used a parent node and then have all my vms point to that. Took like an hour to figure it out

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Hey, did you use the cloud functionality or not? I’m tryna go all local with parent-child kind of capability but so far unable to.

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I’ll look into this too. Thank you.

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agreed … BY FAR the fastest. Easiest learning curve as well

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Netdata, I’ve meant to look into Grafana but it always seemed way too overcomplicated and heavy for my purposes. Maybe one day, though…

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I thought the same thing but it’s not bad actually, there are some pre build dashboards you can import for common metrics from Linux, windows, firewalls etc …

netdata is much better though (IMHO)

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I know that it needs a fix when my dad complaining that he can’t watch TV and the rolling door doesn’t open in the morning.

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Checkmk (Raw - free version.) Some setup aspects are a bit annoying (wants to monitor every last ZFS dataset and takes too long to ‘ignore’ them one by one.) It does alert me to things that could cause issues, like the boot partition almost full. I run it in a Docker container on my (primarily) file server.

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I use this as well! Works well and has built in intelligence for thresholds.

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