Improved Monitoring
TL;DR: I am aggregating my monit data with kuma, have an import script with IaC and better notifications.
I’ve been using monit as my primary monitoring tool for years now. It is low on resources, runs on all my relevant systems (mainly debian/ubuntu servers, raspberries) and is able to monitor both exposed services like webservers and internal metrics, e.g. memory or cpu load. And what I really love is the ability to deploy monit via ansible-playbook including set up a webserver with certs and get and store all my configs in files. This way everything is in a source code repository (git) and can be re-used/restored.
But I was never really happy with the notifications and aggregation.
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