Migrating to VictoriaMetrics and FluentBit (Part 1) — Motivation and Migration

I&rsquo;ve been running the same Prometheus monitoring stack on my homeservers for years. It worked fine — but it was more complex than it needed to be. node_exporter and cAdvisor are two separate containers doing one job: telling me what the machine and its containers are up to. And cAdvisor, it turns out, was the heaviest thing in my entire monitoring stack. I wanted something simpler and…