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   Hello Dan!   
      
   25 Jan 24 21:09, you wrote to all:   
      
    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!   
      
      
   The free grafana-cloud tier is plenty for monitoring my bbs server.  I'm   
   streaming the logs to it via the grafana-agent.   
      
   Last week I got a wild hair and set up this:   
      
   https://snapshots.raintank.io/dashboard/snapshot/ybCmnOlQAJnFye8   
   2Dsmdi1ev7EV038q   
      
   (snapshot from the last 24 hours as of this post)   
      
      
   I still plan on adding number of messages from/to uplinks/downlinks.  I may   
   actually send out alerts if dupes rise above a certain pecentage.   
      
      
      
   I do have another dashboard that I'm working on. It has number of connections   
   over time, number of connections by IP address, and a few other things.   
      
      
   doing this via logs is not all that efficient, though. At some point I'll   
   likely create some kind of prometheus exporter to just scrape data, rather   
   than forcing grafana to parse its entire history of logs (only 48 hours worth   
   on the free tier) to display data.   
      
   Grafana will, however, allow you to set up alerts based on triggers,  such as   
   a specific line in a log file.  SBBS choked on me in a weird way the other   
   day, for the first time in forever, so I may set it up to send an alert to my   
   phone if something like that happens again.  I didn't catch it, and the board   
   was down for more than a day.   
      
      
      
      
      
   Mike   
      
      
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