# Server monitoring 101I have been running a @npub129e9...3cyx server for ~5 years now, but there is one question I have never been able to answer: **how loaded is my server?** 👀 I know, I am a terrible sysad (actually, I am *not* a sysad, at all), because I have no idea how to determine:<li>if my server is running smoothly</li><li>if the server is under stress, and why</li><li>what applications are the heaviest</li><li>if there is the possibility of installing more apps</li><li>when peaks of stress are happening and what is causing them</li> In general, I would like to understand **the fundamentals of server monitoring**: what are the most critical metrics and what do they mean? What parameters do I have to keep an eye on? I installed Prometheus and Grafana, but then I realized I have absolutely no idea what to do next… Do you have any suggestions? I thought about watching some video tutorials, but I would not really know **how they would relate to YunoHost** installations. Please, if possible reply [in this thread of the YunoHost forum]( ), so that we can keep track of this useful information also for others in the future. 🌻 Once I will have learned the basics, I would be very happy to write some pointers about this in the documentation, or an **essential YunoHost Monitoring tutorial**. #sysAd #YunoHost #askFedi #help #systemAdministration #serverMonitoring #server #selfHosting #selfHost #Linux