Production-Ready Beszel Stack

ivansalloum

Just published a full walkthrough on how I deploy Beszel for self-hosted monitoring.

Read it here: https://ivansalloum.com/how-to-run-beszel-for-server-monitoring/

8Dweb

ivansalloum Looks promising, thank you for sharing this. I am very interested in Beszel for monitoring TrueNas Scale devices. I have read your guide, and will actually test this later this week, since I am finding some shortcomings with other options.

nzadam

ivansalloum How are you installing Beszel on Enhance servers. Just as a binary wrapped with systemd? Or are you using docker somehow?

mendozal

I just implemented this in a couple of hours. It works nicely.
I'm replacing my current tool with this.

adamx12

Beszel is nice. My deployment is running Coolify on a small Hetzner server and add in Beszel and Uptime Kuma docker images to watch things.

ivansalloum

adamx12 You can ditch Uptime Kuma and only use Beszel for uptime monitoring.

ivansalloum

nzadam I run the agents using docker on Enhance. You can use a systemd service as well. It is up to you. Both work.

nzadam

ivansalloum thanks. Sorry for newb question but how are you using docker? None of the commands I'm used to are available after the default install, and I'm wary of installing it since my understanding is that Enhance uses containers for websites?

mendozal

nzadam you want to install the agent or the server as a docker container?

ivansalloum

nzadam Use a dedicated server for installing the Beszel monitoring dashboard that has no Enhance instance installed. Only Beszel on that server. Then, install only agents on Enhance servers to make the Beszel monitoring dashboard collect metrics from the server like CPU usage. If you want to use docker for installing the agents, make sure you have docker installed on that server. Installing docker won’t have any problems with Enhance.

nzadam

mendozal ivansalloum I already have the hub installed and working, just wasn't sure how best to add the agent to an enhance node. I've been using Docker everywhere else, but as I said didn't think I could run docker containers on an enhance node.

Thanks!