I went through setting up netdata for a sraging (in progression for a production) server not too long ago.

The netdata docs were quite clear on that fact that the default configuration is a “showcase configuration”, not a “production ready configuration”!

It’s really meant to show off all features to new users, who then can pick what they actually want. Great thing about disabling unimportant things is that one gets a lot more “history” for the same amount of storage need, cause there are simply less data points to track. Similar with adjusting the rate which it takes data points. For instance, going down from default 1s internal to 2s basically halfs the CPU requirement, even more so if one also disables the machine learning stuff.

The one thing I have to admit though is that “optimizing netdata configs” really isn’t that quickly done. There’s just a lot of stuff it provides, lots of docs reading to be done until one roughly gets a feel for configuring it (i.e. knowing what all could be disabled and how much of a difference it actually makes). Of course, there’s always a potential need for optimizations later on when one sees the actual server load in prod.

Assuming one hears their own voice in recorded form enough times, that “strange” feeling it might give at first subsides.

And it will find you the most answers online in case you have a git related question.

Oh boy… can’t promise you that I will last that long. I know it sounds pathetic, but is replying to one’s own comment an option (just for stress testing)?

Kinda, but that’s “rainbows”.

Status quo (your comment): 8 x 7 + 1 = 57 sure is bunch of stripes.

I see. 9th rainbow, here we go.

Oh wow, even if you put it in landscape? In either case, lemmy’s web interface hides a lot of context by default when answering via the “messages” notifcation. So in a sense, with that one could reply endlessly. Then again, that’s not part of our experiment I’d say.

Right, that’s how it all started.

I just unfolded everthing. Seems we are on the 8th rainbow. Almost looks like on my phone, while in potrait mode, 10 rainbows will likely have it filled up.

Alright, second season, here we go!

Ha, for sure I missed the other comment…

You didn’t mention how big those volumes are and how frequently the data changes.

Assuming it’s not that much data:

• use tar to archive each volume first, while using proper options to preserve permissions and whatever else is important for your usecase
• use restic to backup those archives
• use a proper pruning strategy to not let your backups get too big:
  • I’m not that familiar with restic, but maybe you can backup those archives separately and apply a more aggressive pruning strategy just for them
  • simply might be needed, cause deduplication (AFAIK) might not be that great with backing up archives
  • but maybe if the volume data and the resulting archive doesn’t change that often, deduplication would be sufficient even with a not so aggressive pruning strategy

One takeaway from this surely is that such deeply nested endeavours sure are easily missed.

I do wonder if there’s a hard limit at some point regarding “nested replies”…

Nice, bit over half way point here.

I see, somehow completely forgot that apps might be different. In browser version in landscape (I just noticed) there’s also the right sidebar, which reserves some space. So it wouldn’t even have to go all the way.

I hope we’re all talking about portrait orientation. Oh boy, filling it up in landscape mode seems a daunting task. °!°

Alright, looks like 40% filled up on my screen atm.

Oh, it’s still going!

Nah, one is enough. ^^ Curiosity got the better of me thinking about how squished the UI might end up looking.

Let the streak continue…