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• Getting started with NextCloud?

  I’ve tried NextCloud before and didn’t really love it and I’m now happy with a combination of syncthing and LibreOffice. But my wife wants the full google drive, with sheets, docs etc. without the google, and I think NextCloud is my best option for that. I’m and experienced *nix admin and already have a Linux server running with both VMs and docker containers and also have a working OpenVPN setup for remote access. But I found the NextCloud setup frustrating. We had a discussion about it (here...

• Post #956410

  I’m already running a grafana instance, so I’ll look into elastic/filebeat. Thanks.

• Any Victoria Logs advice or alternatives

  I run a small home lab - number of servers varies from time to time. Currently five, all Linux. When I heard about log consolidation I imagined that I would get a nice dashboard type view where I could see a consolidated, real time, view of all my server logs go by. Victoria Logs does that for me. I also imagined that there would be a way to flag particular log entries as “normal, and expected” so they would be excluded in the future - the goal being to get this dashboard to a state where i...