I run a couple of servers at work for my skunkworks projects, and I was trying to find a good monitoring tool to see how much stress I was putting them under. I already use “monit” (https://mmonit.com/monit/), running on a Raspberry Pi, to monitor whether a server (and services running on it) is there at all, but for more detailed monitoring, Netdata (https://github.com/netdata/netdata) was the killer app for me. It’s super easy to install, and once up and running you just go to <servername>:19999 to check the status. If you leave it idle for a while, it’ll stop updating (nice!), which I thought was good because it does provide a metric ton of information. The really nice thing is that because my servers host a bunch of Docker containers, I can see what *each container* is doing. Too awesome.
Example shot for one of the containers:
