Trying to understand the different selfhosted monitoring solutions

Note: It seems my original post from last week didn't get posted on lemmy.world from kbin (I can't seem to find it) so I'm reposting it. Apologies to those who may have already seen this....

https://kbin.social/m/selfhosted@lemmy.world/t/279506

Trying to understand the different selfhosted monitoring solutions - selfhosted - kbin.social

Note: It seems my original post from last week didn't get posted on lemmy.world from kbin (I can't seem to find it) so I'm reposting it. Apologies to those who may have already seen this....

Netdata is great and easily deployed via docker. I ran it bare metal before and was also pleased if that's your preference.
Netdata when it works is pretty great, however it tends to eat up the RAM of whatever I put it on until the whole server stops responding. If they fixed whatever caused… that. I would totally still be using it.
I’ve never had that with the few systems I’ve ran it on
I've also never had that issue. It's had quite a few updates since I started using it.
Have you tried reducing how long netdata store metrics? Even 24 hours of metrics use a lot of RAM to store. On small servers I’ll just limit it to 8 hours of metrics because I’m mostly interested with the alerts and live resource usage.