https://servdigest.com/en/tags/hosted/ Recent content in Hosted on ServDigest — Honest Reviews of Digital Services Hugo en-us Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://servdigest.com/en/guides/self-hosted-monitoring-stack-guide/ Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://servdigest.com/en/guides/self-hosted-monitoring-stack-guide/ <p>You need to keep an eye on your servers, services, and websites. But paying Datadog $15 per host per month is painful, especially when you have a handful of VPS instances and a dozen self-hosted applications. The good news: an open-source monitoring stack can be assembled in an hour and covers 90% of an average project&rsquo;s needs.</p> <p>In this guide, we&rsquo;ll assemble a stack: Prometheus (metrics), Grafana (dashboards), Loki (logs), Node Exporter (system metrics), and Uptime Kuma (website status). Everything in Docker Compose, everything with persistence, everything with alerts.</p>