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 goeranh | maybe just https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd-journal-remote.html, or rsyslog? | 12:19:11 |
 Sandro 🐧 | I wanted to look into victoria metrics because it is supposed to be fast and memory efficient | 13:55:45 |
| Sandro 🐧 | so opposite of opensearch | 13:55:54 |
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 noradtux | uhh, victria logs .. interesting | 16:57:42 |
| noradtux | uhh, victoria logs .. interesting | 16:57:57 |
 magic_rb | Im relatively happy with postgres, it get very big but thats primarily cause i havent configured any resampling | 17:57:32 |
| noradtux | I currently use graylog to collect logs from .. everything. But that is sooooo ressource heavy | 17:59:37 |
| noradtux | I currently use graylog to collect syslog from .. everything. But that is sooooo ressource heavy | 17:59:56 |
| magic_rb | Telegraf + postgres here, works okay | 18:01:44 |
| magic_rb | I dont notice it running. But i also have 2 cpus and 64gb of memory | 18:02:01 |
| magic_rb | I can check the memory use when i get to my laptop later today | 18:02:36 |
| 9 Apr 2026 |
 monokles | If it is just monitoring for a home setup without the need for metrics, you could also just pipe journald entries of interest to something by writing a small systemd service yourself. For example, I push ssh login events on my systems to private e2ee matrix rooms.
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 phaer | I just checked because that seemed to be rather high: alloy on my hosts eats between 40 and 65M of RAM. Granted, none of those is suuuper busy with log generation, but the journal of a private rasperry pi shouldn't be either.
Maybe it's specific rules or so? I can at least tell you it does not NEED to use that much RAM if you are otherwise happy with one of them | 15:11:54 |
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| Matthew Rappard | Feel free to loudly tell me it's a bad.
But has anyone got NixOS working on a Google Cloud Workstations
https://cloud.google.com/workstations | 17:52:19 |
 blades | In reply to @mrappard:matrix.org
Feel free to loudly tell me it's a bad.
But has anyone got NixOS working on a Google Cloud Workstations
https://cloud.google.com/workstations Not nixos, but our internal equivalent uses a lot of the same tooling and it was trivial to install nix (via determinate installer) and devenv into the the workspaces.
(I would have installed nixos, but the infra team in charge begged me not to add more distros that they’d have to test.) | 18:44:41 |
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 jaredmontoya | I had to set a GOMEMLIMIT of 120MiB, and systemd now reports 154MB usage on my server and 64MB usage on the RPI.
If I set GOMEMLIMIT to 50MB it hogs the cpu in a cycle of freeing and allocating the memory that it wants to use so unfortunately it can't be as light as promtail was (in fact it's a roughly 2.5x ram usage increase on the raspberry pi that doesn't have RAM to spare), but at least it's manageable now. | 09:33:15 |
| jaredmontoya | by the way, promtail had something called "positions file" which let it only send new logs to loki even if it was restarted. does alloy do something like this by default or I need to configure it explicitly? | 09:34:23 |
| jaredmontoya | * | 09:34:50 |
 K900 | It does by default | 09:40:34 |
