This seems about the right size for my homelab. I've tried Graylog and and the Loki/Grafana/Promtail stack but they're just too many moving parts for me. I just want to read logs, I don't want to administer a whole logging stack.
It just seemed pretty heavy and made up of a lot of different services. I'm sure it would be fine if I wanted to take the time to understand it and really plan out how it fits into my deployment, but I don't; I just want to read logs sometimes.
Does anyone know of other tools like this which are a web UI of systemd logs on a VPS which I access, self hosted, from a website and secure behind a password?
I use New Relic for APM already, but I was surprised to find that New Relic does not support Debian 11 for their default infrastructure agent to forward logs from?
I did have a quick play with Grafana Cloud using the default dashboards for their linux agent were so incredibly slow when trying to navigate simple metrics.
That has not been my experience whatsoever. At work we run our own self-hosted Grafana open-source and it's been fantastic. I've also run it on my own Raspberry Pi 4B at home and it's worked very well.
Yeah, that's not great. The interface seems snappier for me, but I may just be partial. I dunno. There is no perfect solution, but Grafana has been pretty amazing in my experiences.
