[Jiejeing]

You can still do it, but the "old school" way of doing it is much less flexible.

For this kind of setup, prometheus and grafana are not complicated (close to 0 configuration), and docker mostly works out of the box on linux hosts, barring nftables shenanigans. You end up with something that "just works", is pretty, and does not require fiddling.

Technically I do find this overkill for "home network monitoring", but at least it does not require k8s so I won’t complain.

[toyg]

> at least it does not require k8s

One would think that should be a hell of a low bar. It’s like having to choose a car and going “Trabant will do, at least it does not require a crew of seamen”.

[midrus]

For a home setup having to bring up 3 containers just to have some metrics is too much in my opinion.

I've been using InfluxDB at home just because of how easy it is to setup and use.