New Installation on Mac Mini with Tailscale

[doronkatz]

Hi folks,

My question sounds similar to others but with different variables I presume. I installed via docker-compose beszel on my mac mini.

my docker-compose is as follows:

services:
  beszel-agent:
    image: "henrygd/beszel-agent"
    container_name: "beszel-agent"
    restart: unless-stopped
    network_mode: host
    volumes:
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro
      # monitor other disks / partitions by mounting a folder in /extra-filesystems
      # - /mnt/disk/.beszel:/extra-filesystems/sda1:ro
    environment:
      PORT: 45876
      KEY: "xxx"

I follow the instructions to run docker-compose up -d after adding the key in from add-system step in the UI. But it still shows as down for a prolonged period of time.

My logs are as follows:

❯ docker logs beszel
2025/01/17 21:36:26 Server started at http://0.0.0.0:8090
├─ REST API:  http://0.0.0.0:8090/api/
└─ Dashboard: http://0.0.0.0:8090/_/
2025/01/17 21:41:06 Server started at http://0.0.0.0:8090
├─ REST API:  http://0.0.0.0:8090/api/
└─ Dashboard: http://0.0.0.0:8090/_/
..
❯ docker logs beszel-agent
2025/01/17 21:45:45 INFO Detected root device name=vda1
2025/01/17 21:45:45 INFO Detected network interface name=eth0 sent=9956641501 recv=1494493564
2025/01/17 21:45:45 INFO Detected network interface name=eth1 sent=299810 recv=19757460
2025/01/17 21:45:45 INFO Detected network interface name=services1 sent=425658159 recv=9529534368
2025/01/17 21:45:45 INFO Starting SSH server address=:45876
2025/01/17 21:46:10 INFO Detected root device name=vda1
2025/01/17 21:46:10 INFO Detected network interface name=eth0 sent=9957157715 recv=1494536174
2025/01/17 21:46:10 INFO Detected network interface name=eth1 sent=299810 recv=19758270
2025/01/17 21:46:10 INFO Detected network interface name=services1 sent=425699702 recv=9530033718
2025/01/17 21:46:10 INFO Starting SSH server address=:45876

Additional logs:

{
  "id": "9g0e9qfqmjqt2a5",
  "created": "2025-01-17 21:46:25.948Z",
  "data": {
    "err": "dial tcp [::1]:45876: connect: connection refused",
    "port": "45876",
    "system": "localhost"
  },
  "message": "Failed to connect:",
  "level": 8
}```


Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

[henrygd]

I'm not sure I understand how you want to set this up. Can you provide a little more detail?

Is the hub also running on this machine? It looks like it's sending the connection request to [::1]:45876.

Or is the hub on a different machine and you want to connect them via Tailscale network?

I'm assuming you've seen this, but if not check out the video that Alex Kretzschmar made on using Beszel with Tailscale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_9wT-5LoHM

There's also this discussion which may have something useful: #99

One thing to note is that network_mode: host may not work the same way on Mac. I've read conflicting things and don't have a Mac device to test myself. You might want to try the binary if docker continues to give you trouble.

[doronkatz]

Hi. Sorry yes to clarify I have hub as well on same machine and for now just want to observe local host. I copied and pastes exactly the docker compose file from the getting started section, and my docker compose file has both agent and hub in same file and location.

The example video makes use of another tool as well, not sure if I wanted to complicate it with use of that tool as well.

I can try doing it on a Linux installation next and see if I get the same issue.