Hey #openSource and #linux folks, what are we using to monitor self-hosted systems these days (OS and service) with alerting?
I have a few internet-facing systems that are in different datacenters without a shared private network and am looking for the best way to monitor them with alerting with the usual "who watches the watcher" problem.
Are we still using Nagios? Prometheus / Grafana?
Casey Peel
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2026-03-14 04:02:18 UTC
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