[midrus]

Recently I was looking to add some metrics to a small script and I didn't want to deal with all the complexity of setting up grafana, prometheus, the push-proxy-thing (sorry, don't remember the name).

Looking for alternatives, I found InfluxDB, which was just one apt-get install away.

It comes with a web interface to create dashboards, supports push based metrics, and overall I'm loving it.

The web interface doesn't seem as powerful as grafana, but it covers most basic needs. And I think you can use it with grafana too.

[armoredkitten]

>And I think you can use it with grafana too.

You can indeed; I use InfluxDB and Grafana to provide some stats on my home server. Pretty easy to set up, and Grafana just uses the Flux query language to pull the data from Influx.