After seeing in Alert notifications for Community subscriptions (NethSecurity and NethServer 8) that my subscription wouldn’t send alerts any more, I set up my NS8 server to email me directly (why is that setting under Settings → Metrics rather than Settings → Email notifications? No idea). And fo…

The alerts are shown on the nodes page, see also Cluster management | NethServer 8 documentation When Grafana is enabled, you can check the alerts there too. [grafik] EDIT: As regards missing swap, you could add a swapfile, see VPS without swap complains it wants swap

[image] mrmarkuz: nodes page Indeed. Doesn’t seem a very intuitive place for them to be, but it’s shown there. It doesn’t seem, though, that I can do anything with it, like dismiss it, ignore it, or configure that alert. [image] mrmarkuz: Grafana Doesn’t seem to be as easy to see th…

It’s possible to disable alerts in the config file: [image] AlertManager complains about Swap filling up Support I think the alert is correct so what about adding more swap? You could create a swap file. EDIT: To disable the rule you could comment it out i…

Hi Dan, thanks for the detailed feedback. Swap: it’s a documented system requirement ( see here ). It isn’t a waste of disk space: swap lets the kernel move rarely used memory pages out of RAM, which leaves more room for active data and cache, and it acts as a safety net under memory pressure. Even w…

OF TOPIC [image] davidep: Swap: it’s a documented system requirement ( see here ). It isn’t a waste of disk space: swap lets the kernel move rarely used memory pages out of RAM, which leaves more room for active data and cache, and it acts as a safety net under memory pressure. Even with RAM usag…

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mrmarkuz (Markus Neuberger) October 22, 2026, 2:07pm 4

It’s possible to disable alerts in the config file: