I know dashboards are super trendy, but I’d love to hear from those who are not using them. I personally use FreshRSS to keep track of as much as possible, along with Uptime Kuma and plain old bookmarks. Perhaps there is a better overview solution, but I also love filtering what I see to not feel overwhelmed. or spammed, by information.

  • gungho4bungholes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    6 hours ago

    I call an api in technitium to register dns for all services when they are instantiated, and route everything through an nginx reverse proxy - Sonarr.internal.tld for example

    I don’t use any kind of monitoring Or dashboards

  • Fmstrat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    9 hours ago

    Set of cron jobs that check services, then send a Matrix message if there’s an issue.

    For the cron jobs, I pipe stderr to another script that watches those and does the same.

    If all fails, and internet is unavailable and the router crashes, a Pi will toggle a relay, cutting and resupplying power.

  • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.auEnglish
    1·
    9 hours ago

    If Plex doesn’t add new shows/movies/music then I take a look at my services that should be adding stuff for Plex to serve up. That’s pretty much it these days. I had a few pinned tabs in my browser for some of them so can see if they aren’t working if I click on them to add/change something.

    I was using homepage but it seems to cause docker to die a LOT on my server.

  • stonkage@aussie.zoneEnglish
    1·
    9 hours ago

    I mucked around with so many dashboards, homarr, homepage, dashy but settled on glance

    Mainly because it’s minimalist and mostly text based. Handles my RSS feeds and anything that I want render I can usually vibe using the custom API widget.

    https://github.com/glanceapp/glance

  • statiksh0ck@lemmy.usuck.fyiEnglish
    1·
    10 hours ago

    I just use Homepage as a bookmark/landing page so I remember what containers/services I have up and running so that I don’t need to check via terminal/portainer. Portainer/docker-compose files for managing services and that’s pretty much it. If I was using a dashboard I feel like I’d be wasting more time on an already time consuming hobby.

  • hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    35·
    21 hours ago

    i am un-admining. free-range artisanal services wherever i happen to drop them. hell i don’t even know what’s running and what’s not until i try to access something.

    i manage tech all day so my home tech is nothing but abject chaos and i’m ok with that. i have backups and i can go without if needed.

    • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      7·
      20 hours ago

      i am un-admining

      Pretty much this. I just manually handle stuff when needed. I already work at IT so this feels quite liberating, the last thing I want is to annoy myself more, and the stuff I manage is not Critical™.

  • antsu@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    1·
    12 hours ago

    Uptime Kuma monitoring anything I care about and notifying me via Matrix, or notifying me via email if it’s Matrix that’s down.

  • conrad82@lemmy.worldEnglish
    311·
    1 day ago

    I have just reduced the number of services to the couple I actually use, which I mostly remember exist. I have my own domain, so each service is service.mydomain.tld

    • credics@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      11·
      1 day ago

      Same for me. I use most of my services multiple times a week, so I find out pretty quickly if one isn’t working.

      • conrad82@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        1 day ago

        Same here 🙂 Last 3 times, things have broken because zfs raid on usb-connected DAS is not a great idea 😅😅

        Even though Level1Tech said it works 😶🫣 https://youtu.be/GmQdlLCw-5k from 11:11 . Maybe terramaster use bad usb chipset.

        • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          24 hours ago

          I used a hodge-podge of chinesium parts and leftover drives to create a DAS system that hooks up to an HBA via DAC. I’m actually kinda surprised how stable it’s all been.

  • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
    262·
    1 day ago

    I’m not, really. I run docker-compose and it runs. That’s it.

  • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    151·
    1 day ago

    If I had time to make dashboards, I wouldn’t waste it making dashboards. Most of the stuff I have just works without a lot of attention, and that’s the way I like it.

    I just wait for someone to scream if it breaks.

  • drkt@scribe.disroot.orgEnglish
    5·
    22 hours ago

    I’ll notice it’s down when I try to access it and it doesn’t work. If it’s not down, there is nothing to manage 🙃

    I have documentation if I need to see everything at a glance. I don’t need a live-updating dashboard for that.

  • brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    19 hours ago

    Unraid has a table of the docker containers.

    I don’t need metrics or stats. I wouldn’t look at, or care about them anyway. Dashboards feel like tech enthusiast crap. Tech and resources for the sake of having tech. My services are to solve a problem, not look at metrics of.