I was unnecesarily agressive, I’m sorry.

My point is that he was fully aware of it, and endorsed the bomb, so the meme doesn’t make much sense IMO. But your comment is on point, there was a huge risk of the nazis with nuclear bombs.

I know, that’s what he says in the letter.

Einstein urged Roosvelt for US to create its own nuclar bomb.

Dang, that’s a lot of seperate parts for 1 “simple” task

Agree, but this setup (node-exporter + Prometheus + Grafana) allows for a lot of expansion and customization. I’m sure there are simpler tools that tell you your computer status, and it’s up to you to see which fits more your use-case.

but just seems like there could be an easier way

I’ve felt that way before. But in this case of node-exporter and Prometheus, it’s way simpler. You don’t even need Docker, and the installation for both tools is basically a single line that you can copy and paste from their documentation.

Configuring Prometheus to accept node-exporter is a bit harder I admit, but again you can simply copy and paste the documentation example. The whole process should take like ~10 minutes if you follow the documentation.

Prometheus+Grafana is my go-to. You can also add Drilldown plugin to Grafana and it will monitor Docker logs.

Prometheus is incredibly versatile and widely used, so a lot of projects support metrics export to it, so IMO is your safest blind bet.

For even more custom behaviour, you can create very simple Python scripts that send data to Prometheus.

Prometheus is a metric scrapper, it just recollects metrics from either its own computer or another one. If you want to monitor something, you also need that something to publish metrics, so they can be scrapped by Prometheus.

Thus if you want to monitor even just a single computer, you need node-exporter to publish the metrics, and Prometheus to gather them. Then you can use Grafana to create beautiful dashboards (or use community’s), and even add alarms to it.

Breezy Weather, avaiable at Fdroid. Have been quite happy with it.

I used it to chat with people and someone suggested what ended up being one my favorite albums. You won’t meet the love of your life, but IMO still worth to spend some time there, you can find very interesting stuff.