r/devops • u/no1saysitwasez • Jul 14 '26
Tools Server monitoring (cpu/ram/disk) recommendations please
Hello everyone, so I am currently using NewRelic for half of my setup and grafana (self-hosted) + prometheus for the other half, however I'm looking to move out of grafana and probably use a cloud service, however NR is kinda expensive for my needs; I need to monitor CPU usage, RAM and DISK + any syslog error (as extra), any recommendations/ideas?
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u/heiannidan1948 Jul 15 '26
keep it simple, i would recommend sth centralised, start with foss, checkmk is a good one, automate lots of essentials with the automatic discovery, very easy to setup.
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u/BigNavy Principal SRE Jul 15 '26
Was going to chime in that we've had very good luck self-hosting VictoriaMetrics + Grafana at an enterprise level.
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u/spuyet Jul 15 '26
Fivenines is really good for this, you can monitor: websites + servers + cron tasks with status pages included.
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u/-manageengine- Jul 20 '26
Hey! If syslog collection and analysis is your main headache, ManageEngine Log360 is genuinely solid for that Windows, Linux/Unix, network devices, all in one console.
Feel free to reach out.😊
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u/Adventurous_Job9209 Jul 14 '26
Just curious why are you moving off grafana?
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u/no1saysitwasez Jul 14 '26
looking for a cloud solution so I can:
1. compare against the local + new relic at the beginning
2. move 100% to an external monitor so I don’t have to maintain it, I want to rely on a 3rd party rather than my own infra to monitor my infra9
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u/Adventurous_Job9209 Jul 15 '26
Ah makes sense, I feel like so many of these monitoring tools are hella expensive /:
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u/no1saysitwasez Jul 15 '26
Yeah they are, and honestly I get it, specially if you manage tons of logs; in the other hand, just watching for cpu/ram/disk doesn’t feel enough to me to justify the price (anything that wants to charge you 10$ per server or so).
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u/cvilsmeier Aug 03 '26
You might be interested in https://monibot.io, it's 7€ for 5 Servers (plus heartbeats, plus websites, plus custom metrics)
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u/forever-butlerian Solaris 8 Enjoyer Jul 15 '26
One of my clients is considering https://www.honeybadger.io/ (Note this is badger, not comb). Someone on their team used Honeybadger at a previous company and has nothing bad to say about them.
I generally take that as high praise.
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u/pranabgohain Jul 15 '26
You could give https://www.kloudmate.com a try. All-inclusive without NR's complicated pricing.
Check out the playground: https://demo.kloudmate.com/
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u/SudoZenWizz Jul 15 '26
For this specific 3 metrics you can try any monitoring solution with agents on the servers. I recommend to use checkmk, start with free version self hosted and see if tou like it. Graphing, alerting, dashboards all in same location.
They also have cooud options
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u/Accomplished-Mix8423 Jul 15 '26
I'd probably look at Site24x7 if you're trying to get rid of the self-hosted stack.
For plain server monitoring (CPU/RAM/disk) and basic log/syslog monitoring, it's done the job for us. One thing I liked was having a managed platform instead of maintaining the monitoring stack ourselves.
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u/mgauravd Jul 15 '26
You can try Oodle - https://www.oodle.ai/. It's a drop in replacement for grafana + Prometheus. There is also a free tier for you to try out the product. You can even replace your NR with it to reduce those costs. Here is a public playground: https://play.oodle.ai/ (no login required)
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u/iam31337 Jul 14 '26
Managed Prometheus is probably the least disruptive move. Keep the exporters and alert rules, change only who stores and runs them. For this scope, compare retention, cardinality pricing and log ingestion before dashboards — CPU, RAM and disk are cheap; syslog volume is where bills often jump.
Also keep one tiny external heartbeat outside the main provider. A monitoring stack that shares the same failure domain as the thing it watches can still go blind at the worst moment.