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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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