Start of my proper server and network rack

[ENTERPRISE]

  On 25/09/2020 at 12:21, axipher said:

 

Once I got InfluxDB and Grafana setup, I kind of just went overboard with the stats I was throwing in and making dashboards, most just end up looking pretty and not having any real troubleshooting stats on them, but sometimes it can help identify trends.

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Nothing wrong with getting a little carried away  

[Laithan]

  On 25/09/2020 at 14:00, ENTERPRISE said:

 

Nothing wrong with getting a little carried away  

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Mandatory I would say 

 

Yes that control panel is really nice.. I am surprised how much information you're able to get.

[tictoc]

Grafana does excel on the eye candy.

 

Now you can start down the rabbit hole of collectd, InfluxDB, and grafana to chart performance metrics

[ENTERPRISE]

  On 26/09/2020 at 02:47, tictoc said:

Grafana does excel on the eye candy.

 

Now you can start down the rabbit hole of collectd, InfluxDB, and grafana to chart performance metrics

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Is it bad that I have never heard of any of these ? Lol. This is what you get for being mainly a Windows man

[axipher]

  On 26/09/2020 at 02:47, tictoc said:

Grafana does excel on the eye candy.

 

Now you can start down the rabbit hole of collectd, InfluxDB, and grafana to chart performance metrics

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My initial look at CollectD looks like something similar to Telegraf that I am already using on my Linux servers.  I'll have to look more in to it if CollectD would work better for system stats of my Windows boxes as well.

 

Ideally I would want to have the same thing for all then just all my systems so that I can have a single Grafana Dashboard with all the systems on it with the drop-down which is what I have now with a Telegraf Dashboard.

[schuck6566]

Just reading along in awe...

[axipher]

  On 28/09/2020 at 16:20, schuck6566 said:

Just reading along in awe...

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Thanks haha, I just wanted to document the process somewhere in case anyone else has an urge to build a decent little home rack, also EHW needs more content

[Bastiaan_NL]

  On 28/09/2020 at 17:24, axipher said:

also EHW needs more content

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That's a good motivation! And I like reading along

[tictoc]

  On 28/09/2020 at 14:24, axipher said:

 

My initial look at CollectD looks like something similar to Telegraf that I am already using on my Linux servers.  I'll have to look more in to it if CollectD would work better for system stats of my Windows boxes as well.

 

Ideally I would want to have the same thing for all then just all my systems so that I can have a single Grafana Dashboard with all the systems on it with the drop-down which is what I have now with a Telegraf Dashboard.

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My only Windows machines are VM's, so I haven't gone very deep in the weeds to look for monitoring/profiling tools. I know that there is a free trial of a Windows client for collectd, but no idea if it is any good.  I think your current monitoring stack should be able to hook into your Windows clients, but no idea what all is exposed.

 

Nice work consolidating down into a single rack.     

[axipher]

  On 30/09/2020 at 01:12, tictoc said:

My only Windows machines are VM's, so I haven't gone very deep in the weeds to look for monitoring/profiling tools. I know that there is a free trial of a Windows client for collectd, but no idea if it is any good.  I think your current monitoring stack should be able to hook into your Windows clients, but no idea what all is exposed.

 

Nice work consolidating down into a single rack.     

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Thanks man, its almost where I want it.  Aside form a little cable management, some 1U fillers and stuff, I think just some fans and temperature sensors.

 

Telegraf for Windows seems to expose the minimum, but nowhere near the amount that Telegraf on Linux does.