Ansible Monitoring Index

Abstract

This is a collection of roles used to deploy a standardized monitoring package to the authors computing resources.

Ansible Monitoring Index#

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Readme and other metadata#

Glossary#

ArchLinux#

ArchLinux os A simple, lightweight distribution

glances#

Glances is a cross-platform monitoring tool that aims to present maximum information in minimal space through either a curses-based or Web-based interface. It can dynamically adapt the displayed information depending on the terminal size.

Grafana#

Grafana is an observability tool that enables centralized storage and analysis of metrics and logs from external sources.

Kubernetes#

Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an open source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

Prometheus#

Prometheus provides open source metrics and monitoring for your systems and services.

promtail#

promtail is now deprecated in favor of Grafana Alloy.

systemd#

systemd is a suite of basic building blocks for a Linux system. It provides a system and service manager that runs as PID 1 and starts the rest of the system.

YAML#

YAML Ain’t Markup Language™ is a human-friendly data serialization language for all programming languages. It is much better than JSON.

yay#

Yet Another Yogurt is an AUR Helper Written in Go.

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