Software Endorsements

[Null]

I have approximately 100 VPS servers and dedis to manage right now and it's becoming really cumbersome to keep track of their bandwidth, ip addresses, purpose, and disk space. Is there something TRIVIAL I can shit out on every one of them to manage my shit?

 

[Mutley]

Maybe something like NetData, which also has a cloud option..

Git - https://github.com/netdata/netdata
Home Page - https://www.netdata.cloud/

or maybe Glances
Git - https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/

EDIT : I will try and fire up Netdata in an On-Prem config to see what its like.

 

[Betonhaus]

I have approximately 100 VPS servers and dedis to manage right now and it's becoming really cumbersome to keep track of their bandwidth, ip addresses, purpose, and disk space. Is there something TRIVIAL I can shit out on every one of them to manage my shit?

Sounds like NetData would work. I played with it a little when I installed Swizzin on my home server but it wasn't useful for my scale.

Seems their website funnels you to useinf their cloud for the "parent" server which is probably a no-no for you, but the GitHub tells you how to set it up solely on your systems.

 

[He's FAT!]

I have approximately 100 VPS servers and dedis to manage right now and it's becoming really cumbersome to keep track of their bandwidth, ip addresses, purpose, and disk space. Is there something TRIVIAL I can shit out on every one of them to manage my shit?

Setup a Grafana server with Influxdb, and install "collectd" on each vps/dedi to collect stats and push them to influxdb. This lets you have over time stats of cpu, bandwidth, disk, etc and build your own custom dashboard. If you want, you can also install Loki on the Grafana server and Promtail on each server for collecting logs e.g. web server logs and consolidating them in one place, extracting metrics from the logs, etc. Grafana has a data store+collection agent to support pretty much any use case.

If you want to not only track, but actually MANAGE all of those servers, use Ansible. You define a "hosts" file with all your servers or put them in groups. Ansible connects over ssh, and the only dependency on the vps/dedis is python which is probably already installed. You can then run tasks on all the servers or specific group(s). Either ad-hoc, or you can write a "playbook" where you define a bunch of different tasks. This could be used to e.g. update all kiwiflare servers, sync configuration files, use your imagination.

 

[Betonhaus]

I suppose it goes without saying, but ensure the solution you use is secure by design and locked down tighter then a nun's knickers. You have a stinkditch stalker after all.

 

[germboy]

I can also endorse grafana/influxdb, we used it for a few uni projects monitoring and geo-tracking ~100 rasp pis strapped to scooters. Setup is more or less retard-proof if you just want monitoring and a dashboard, a retard monkey (me) with barely any networking experience could figure it out in an afternoon. Plus you can also set it up to send out push notifications in case a pre defined event happens (i.e. something shits the bed)

 

[Flaming Dumpster]

I have approximately 100 VPS servers and dedis to manage right now and it's becoming really cumbersome to keep track of their bandwidth, ip addresses, purpose, and disk space. Is there something TRIVIAL I can shit out on every one of them to manage my shit?

NetBox is good for keeping track of what's what. It has an IPAM, you can track VMs and "devices" including assigning roles, locations, interfaces, services, tenancies, whatever. You can create as many users as you please and setup permissions for them, so your various autists can do the needful without having the ability to see literally everything. It's designed to be able to document anything IT-related that you have inside of a datacenter.

There's also changelogs and journals that support Markdown formatting, you can create custom fields really easily for storing all kinds of bullshit and there's an API that's easy to work with.

The bad news: there's no official agent that you put on a server which inventories, basically somebody needs to sit down and create all the subnets, IPs, sites, hosts, VMs, interfaces, etc. and wire it all together. It's tedious as fuck at first but pays dividends when you can instantly figure out how many servers you have with a provider in a specific region whose custom attribute SNEED equals CHUCK.

Probably doesn't meet the definition of trivial but you don't have to go full retard out the gate.

As for actual monitoring, I like Zabbix as you can get some decent monitoring with basic templates and autoregistration. Though Netdata is probably better if you want something that'll aggressively autodetect services.

 

[Palmer Bangs]

You will probably be hard-pressed to find anything trivial to set up, most likely you'll need at least 2 different solutions.

1. Monitoring
2. Orchestration if you don't already.

https://prometheus.io/ is another monitoring agent that you can hook up to Grafana, you'll have to tighten the security on it though. I've set up a demo of this in a day. Other suggestions here are good as well. The prometheus page also has some comparisons against other products that might work for you: https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/comparison/

Nagios is OK but probably a little beefy/clunk compared to others.

And I +1 using Ansible to manage your hosts, you could use it to install whatever agent you end up choosing. And since it works over ssh you could easily get Ansible going quickly. There's a learning curve on learning how to write playbooks but once it clicks you can make mass changes easily.

 

[Flaming Dumpster]

Nagios is OK but probably a little beefy/clunk compared to others.

I'd take the freebie version of Checkmk over Nagios Core any day of the week. Just getting pnp4nagios to work on PHP 8 is such a pain in the ass as there's a bunch of small patches required and certain GPL disrespecting fiery dumpsters have not contributed back.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Is there any actual hard proof that Brave is spyware like people are claiming?

 

[attractive_pneumonia]

Is there any actual hard proof that Brave is spyware like people are claiming?

Its not "spy"ware in that its concealing what it does, it literally tells you upfront that it reads the webpage your on and provides its own advertisements rather than the ones on the website. The whole 'muh privacy' stuff is a pointless exercise, once the packets leave your network to the wider internet you have no privacy over them to begin with and its always been that way. The only "privacy" people had was due to a lack in capability for logging and processing this data, the moment this became financially feasible the current tech giants arose.

 

[Null]

Is there any actual hard proof that Brave is spyware like people are claiming?

Brave has its own ad platform. If that's spyware to you then that's all you need to know.

 

[SpellforceFan]

Is there any actual hard proof that Brave is spyware like people are claiming?

Since it's open source, it's easy to check and build it yourself. Any closed source program with access to the internet is to be treated as spyware by default, and the responsibility to prove otherwise lies with its devs.

 

[Jotch]

Since it's open source, it's easy to check and build it yourself. Any closed source program with access to the internet is to be treated as spyware by default, and the responsibility to prove otherwise lies with its devs.

Brave just feels too good to be true. It looks a lot like the privacy oriented spyware stuff, but there's not much more to that.
It's one of those things where something feels "wrong" and you don't know why.

 

[SpellforceFan]

Brave just feels too good to be true. It looks a lot like the privacy oriented spyware stuff, but there's not much more to that.
It's one of those things where something feels "wrong" and you don't know why.

Brave's one and only flaw is that it's built on chromium, and therefore is both limited by what jewgle pushes out and contributes to chromium's monopoly on browser market. If you can find excuses to justify those, then there's no better browser for PC.

 

[Betonhaus]

Brave just feels too good to be true. It looks a lot like the privacy oriented spyware stuff, but there's not much more to that.
It's one of those things where something feels "wrong" and you don't know why.

I get the feeling. It's something like "what is the cost"?
generally if something is good then the developers are somehow getting paid for it, either directly by you paying for the product or by selling your data to advertisers and other interest groups. otherwise it ends up being just one person's project, or a patchwork of barely compatible ideals.

 

[Atlictoal]

I just turn all the Brave Rewards and sponsored shit off. It's a nice idea, but I still fucking despise ads and would rather just give money to people.

 

[Flatline]

it literally tells you upfront that it reads the webpage your on and provides its own advertisements rather than the ones on the website.

Why do people use this browser again?

 

[Banana Hammock]

Any recs for Youtube's faggy new "three videos with adblock and then you're blocked forever" bullshit? I'm not paying $15 a month for fucking Youtube. Maybe if it was $5, but not $15.

I've heard that uBlock Origin seems to work.

 

[Mike Matei's Penis]

Any recs for Youtube's faggy new "three videos with adblock and then you're blocked forever" bullshit? I'm not paying $15 a month for fucking Youtube. Maybe if it was $5, but not $15.

I've heard that uBlock Origin seems to work.

Vivaldi+Ublock Origin works for me. Getting ads now even with ubO on Brave now though. never gotten a YT ad on brave browser watching m.youtube.com on phone, funny enough