Tag: monitoring

SLO/SLI for Home Lab Services

SRE error budgets for home lab. Build Grafana SLO dashboards, understand SLI/SLO, pick sane availability targets.

Alertmanager Routing Trees That Don't Lie

Master Alertmanager routing trees: severity labeling, inhibition, grouping, and multi-receiver logic for reliable home lab alerts that work at 3 AM

Tempo + Grafana: Tracing for Self-Hosters

Distributed tracing with Tempo and Grafana for self-hosted multi-service stacks. OpenTelemetry, sampling, exemplars, and when tracing actually matters at home scale.

Mimir + Grafana: Long-Term Prometheus Storage

Mimir for long-term Prometheus storage. S3-backed, horizontally scaled alternative to Thanos for capacity planning and compliance.

Loki vs Vector for Log Shipping

Promtail vs Vector: which log shipping agent fits your setup? Loki's purpose-built simplicity or Vector's transform power and multiple sinks.

Prometheus Federation for Multi-Site Home Labs

Prometheus federation for multi-site home labs: hierarchical scraping, cross-cluster aggregation, federation vs remote_write, practical config.

SigNoz vs Grafana LGTM Stack

SigNoz gives you logs, metrics, and traces in one ClickHouse-backed app. The Grafana LGTM stack gives you four. Here's how to pick the right one.

Linux PSI: The Pressure Metrics Load Average Wishes It Were

Linux PSI (Pressure Stall Information) exposes real CPU, memory, and IO stall percentages, here's why it beats load average for monitoring.

Beszel: Server Monitoring Without the Prometheus Tax

Beszel gives you Prometheus-style multi-host monitoring via a single hub container and tiny Go agents, no Grafana, no exporters, no yak shaving.

TIG: Telegraf + InfluxDB + Grafana

When Prometheus is overkill: a push-based metrics stack for IoT, smart home, and homelab data. Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana, working together end-to-end.

SigNoz vs Uptrace Self-Hosted Observability

Two OpenTelemetry-first observability platforms backed by ClickHouse. Here's how SigNoz and Uptrace compare for self-hosted homelab and small-team use.

SMART Disk Monitoring with smartmontools

Disks fail. SMART tells you when. Here's how smartctl and smartd actually predict failure, and the attributes that matter (most don't).