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-=> Mike Miller wrote to Dan Clough <=-

 DC> Hello all,

 DC> Wondering what you all do/use for monitoring logs on your boards.

 DC> I have a few terminals open to "tail" various logs on my system
 DC> (running Synchronet).  Been doing it that way for a long while, and it
 DC> works fine, I guess.

 DC> Has anyone used the 'lnav' utility to watch logs?  It's pretty slick,
 DC> has LOTS of options, and I like the use of colors in logs to help
 DC> things "jump out" at you.  If anyone is using this, and has taken the
 DC> time to customize the look/feel of how it displays, would you comment
 DC> on how you're using it, and would you maybe be willing to share your
 DC> custom config that I could use as a starting point to learn how it's
 DC> done?

 DC> Appreciate any input you may have!


 MM> The free grafana-cloud tier is plenty for monitoring my bbs
 MM> server.  I'm streaming the logs to it via the grafana-agent.

 MM> Last week I got a wild hair and set up this:

 MM> https://snapshots.raintank.io/dashboard/snapshot/ybCmnOlQAJnFye872
 MM> Dsmdi1ev7EV038q

 MM> (snapshot from the last 24 hours as of this post)

Wow, that's pretty awesome!

 MM> I still plan on adding number of messages from/to
 MM> uplinks/downlinks.  I may actually send out alerts if dupes rise
 MM> above a certain pecentage.

 MM> I do have another dashboard that I'm working on. It has number of
 MM> connections over time, number of connections by IP address, and a
 MM> few other things.

 MM> doing this via logs is not all that efficient, though. At some
 MM> point I'll likely create some kind of prometheus exporter to just
 MM> scrape data, rather than forcing grafana to parse its entire
 MM> history of logs (only 48 hours worth on the free tier) to display
 MM> data.

I have no knowledge of this kind of thing, seems above my comfort level 
for sure.  The free tier does seem to be fairly useful, if one can grasp 
the overall big-picture of what it's doing.  I may create an account and 
try to figure some of it out.  Thanks for pointing this out.

 MM> Grafana will, however, allow you to set up alerts based on
 MM> triggers,  such as a specific line in a log file.  SBBS choked on
 MM> me in a weird way the other day, for the first time in forever,
 MM> so I may set it up to send an alert to my phone if something like
 MM> that happens again.  I didn't catch it, and the board was down
 MM> for more than a day.

That sounds like a great feature too.  Thanks again for your reply and 
this information.

Dan



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