Size is a great idea, thanks. The problem with backup age is that Backrest doesn’t expose a metric for when the backup was attempted, so right now it’s just checking for failure status daily. That, of course, fails if backrest doesn’t attempt a backup for whatever reason. Chances of that happening, I don’t know, but I’ll have to look into implementing the metric (or label, I suppose) myself.
Beszel is really cool! I was actually planning to set that up at first, but I really wanted to learn Grafana / Prometheus and have the flexibility to customize things how I wanted. That’s definitely my biggest annoyance with using Grafana - I have five machines setup, and each one has 3 containers for monitoring (cAdvisor, smartctl_exporter, node_exporter), so it got pretty tiring to put up so many containers.
I think aggregating logs would be a good choice, yeah. My homelab is distributed across 5 machines, so it’s been getting a little unruly to ssh into them all the time. I actually haven’t taken a look at premade dashboards - completely forgot those exist. I’ve just been writing the PromQL by hand to learn how it all works before adding premade things
I forgot to look into that! I use glance for my homepage now, and I think they have a Grafana community widget that I could take a look at. I have a bunch of bookmarks of community widgets that I need to look at lol
Oh, that’s really interesting! I couldn’t find a way to find absence of success given Backrest’s metrics alone, but using hooks for that seems to solve that problem well. Thanks!