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by jakozaur 1762 days ago
SaaS version of that would be use Telegraf, but send data to Sumo Logic, Data Dog or other observability vendor. I would also

You don't need to host InfluxDb and Grafana yourself. I would also consider gathering logs and traces to troubleshoot problems. Straightforward with top tier observability vendors, harder to do it on your own.

Disclaimer: I'm employee of Sumo Logic.

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Note that you can gather and display logs with this same stack, Telegraf includes a plugin to consume syslog output: https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/release-1.14/plu... and then you can do something like this on Grafana: https://grafana.com/api/dashboards/12433/images/9004/image

The one thing I would add to this guide is enabling HTTPS for the whole stack, if you are transmitting over the public internet. Fortunately, it is quite straightforward (and free) with Let's Encrypt.