====== Monitoring & Alerting ======

Monitoring means many things to many people and the important metrics are almost always something custom and specific, here is how monitor and alert on various bits of the lab. 


====== Zabbix - Environment Monitoring ======
Zabbix is my Environment monitoring, this monitors all physical hardware, interfaces (ILO, IMPI,IDRAC), power infrastructure (PDU through [[https://networkupstools.org/|N.U.T.]] on a Raspberrry pi), Network Infrastructure via SNMP, the Proxmox hypervisor, Proxmox Backup Application, and Truenas all via API. Alerting is configured for e-mail alerts. 


====== Hypervisor Alerting ======
The Proxmox hypervisor has built-in alerting that notifies me on both some hardware issues through the hypervisor but critically on automation and backup jobs that run. 


====== Application Monitoring ======
Applications are monitored one of two ways, if I am monitoring for the speed of a certain metric then ful log/diagnostic data is brought in to prometheus/Grafana for analysis. I do not do any alerting out of this. 


For basic uptimes and response times I use UptimeKuma, it's a very simple tool to notify when sites go down and keep some metrics for the data. This could also be done in zabbix but I provide this monitoring service to several friends and wanted to keep it simple. 


====== Network Monitoring ======
Network traffic is logged and visualized in Akvorado, no alerting is configured.