[lazypenguin]

Grafana cloud, install agents, pretty dashboard. Can add custom prom ingestor to load application logs. Sleep good. Feel confident, look at grafana alerts. Cry much. Finally learn promql, pro dashboards, sleep good again.

Seriously though grafana cloud with their agents is pretty easy and affordable. Grafana family of products kind of have a learning curve but they work very well.

[raihansaputra]

Agents are being deprecated and now moving to Grafana Alloy

but agree. a bit steep, but easy to start with. Grafana cloud can take you really far. (you don't really need all metrics for all running services do you?)

I wish they have built in ping scraper instead of having to run yet another service to do it.