I’m pretty new to selfhosting, but one thing that I know to take seriously is log collection. Since there are a lot of different type of logs (kernel log, application logs, etc) and logs come in many different formats (binary, json, strings) - it’s no easy task to collect them centrally and look through them whenever neccessarly.

I’ve looked at grafana and tried the agent briefly, but it wasn’t as easy as I thought (and it might be a too big tool for my needs). So I thought to ask the linuxlemmy community to get some inspiration.

  • dotslashme@infosec.pubEnglish
    7·
    11 months ago

    Personally I use Loki to aggregate my logs but I’m probably not the typical selfhoster.

    You should first define your needs, if you don’t need logs, then don’t bother with them.

    • sLLiK@lemmy.ml
      2·
      11 months ago

      This has been on my radar for a while, and I keep putting it off. How are you liking it?

      Grafana’s Loki sounded incredibly useful and performant, with the added benefit of reducing storage requirements significantly under some situations.

      • dotslashme@infosec.pubEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        It is easier to deal with than the elastic stack, but unless you’re already familiar with log stacks, it is still a bit of a threshold to vet over before it starts paying off.