Gladys Plus problem

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Not being a network expert… I’d tend to tell you that yes, my problems are resolved since my connection works fine (surfing / downloads), my IPTV no longer cuts out every 2min, etc..
But I may be wrong… I don’t know how to verify it.

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Did you restart your server running Gladys since you fixed the issue?

Otherwise, if I were you I’d run tests in the CLI on your Linux machine — I’m not a network expert either so I asked ChatGPT for a set of Linux commands to check that everything is okay on your side (it’s a start; there are surely other tools to find on the internet):

1. Checking network settings

Check network interfaces

Check the network interfaces to ensure they are correctly configured.

ip a

Check DHCP settings

Make sure the Linux server is correctly obtaining an IP address. If you use DHCP, check the status of the DHCP client.

sudo systemctl status dhclient

Display IP settings

Check that the IP address, gateway and DNS servers are correctly configured.

ip route
cat /etc/resolv.conf

2. Logging and diagnostics

Check system logs

Examine the system logs for error messages or alerts related to the network.

sudo journalctl -xe
sudo dmesg | grep -i network

Check network connections

Check active network connections to see if there are any suspicious or unauthorized connections.

netstat -tulnp

3. Connectivity tests

Ping the gateway

Make sure the Linux server can reach the default gateway.

ping -c 4 <adresse_de_la_passerelle>

Ping the DNS servers

Check connectivity to the configured DNS servers.

ping -c 4 8.8.8.8  # Example with Google DNS

Traceroute

Use traceroute to diagnose the path taken by packets to a given destination.

traceroute google.com

4. Network settings and services

Restart network services

Sometimes, a simple restart of network services can resolve issues.

sudo systemctl restart networking
sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager

Configure network interfaces

Check that the network interface configuration files are correct. On Debian-based distributions this is usually found in /etc/network/interfaces or /etc/netplan for newer Ubuntu versions.

Example for /etc/network/interfaces :

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

5. Other diagnostic tools

ifconfig and ethtool

Use ifconfig to display interface configurations and ethtool for advanced information.

ifconfig
sudo ethtool eth0
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I’m bumping this thread because I’m still experiencing my problem.
A priori @pierre-gilles and I are leaning toward a network issue at my place.

While waiting to continue my tests, I asked ChatGPT to help me set up log monitoring, but not in real time because my disconnections happen very often at night.

It suggests an ELK stack (if anyone’s familiar).

For that I need to restart my Gladys container with arguments that send the logs to Logstash.

But I have doubts… Could someone tell me if this command to run Gladys looks correct?

docker run -d \
  --name gladys \
  --privileged \
  --restart always \
  --log-driver gelf \
  --log-opt gelf-address=udp://adresse_de_logstash:12201 \
  -e TZ=Europe/Paris \
  -e SQLITE_FILE_PATH=/var/lib/gladysassistant/gladys-production.db \
  -e NODE_ENV=production \
  -e SERVER_PORT=80 \
  -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
  -v /var/lib/gladysassistant:/var/lib/gladysassistant \
  -v /dev:/dev \
  -v /run/udev:/run/udev:ro \
  gladysassistant/gladys:v4 \
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Launching an ELK stack just to view Gladys logs seems overkill to me :joy:
Aren’t the current logs sufficient?

Besides, in your case I’m not sure you’ll find the answer in Gladys, since the issue seems to be system-wide (I think it’s a network or DNS problem); you’ll find the answer more in the system logs, and for that you don’t need an ELK stack either ^^

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Oh, you know me, I do what ChatGPT suggests… Overkill or not, I don’t care since I’ll delete everything afterwards :joy:

I’m going to start by inspecting my DNS resolutions all over my network anyway!

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Yes, but essentially that won’t add anything for you…

You already see the logs by doing docker logs gladys, you won’t see anything more by

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