Tag: monitoring

LibreNMS for SNMP-Heavy Home Networks

LibreNMS auto-discovers your switches, APs, and UPS over SNMP with zero MIB hunting. Here's how to deploy it and stop abusing Prometheus for this job.

SmokePing for Internet Connection Sanity

SmokePing turns your ISP no-issue-detected excuse into a documented lie. Set it up in Docker and get clear visual proof of latency spikes and packet loss.

Riemann: The Forgotten Event-Stream Monitor for Home Labs

Riemann processes events as streams, not time-series. Here is why that distinction matters and when Clojure-based stream alerting still beats Prometheus rules.

Glances vs Netdata: Two Free-Tier Monitors Compared

Glances vs Netdata: which free monitor wins for your home lab? We compare install effort, UI quality, alerting, and when to ditch both for Prometheus.

Sentry Self-Hosted for Application Errors

Run Sentry on your own hardware to catch real application errors, stack traces, source maps, release tracking, alerts, and when you should just pay for SaaS.

Heimdall vs Homepage vs Homer: Status Dashboards

Heimdall, Homepage, or Homer? Pick the right self-hosted dashboard for your homelab, real configs, Docker auto-discovery, and live API status widgets included.

cAdvisor + Prometheus: Per-Container Metrics Done Right

Stop guessing which container is eating your RAM. Set up cAdvisor + Prometheus to get real per-container CPU, memory, and network metrics in your homelab.

Grafana Alloy: Replacing the Agent After Deprecation

Grafana Agent hit EOL in November 2025. Here is how to migrate all your monitoring nodes to Alloy without losing your mind, your metrics, or your dashboards.

OpenTelemetry Collector: One Pipeline to Rule Them All

Replace five scattered agents with one OpenTelemetry Collector pipeline, metrics, logs, and traces unified with real config you can drop into a home server.

Falco: Catch Container Attacks at Runtime

Falco watches every syscall your containers make and screams when something sketchy happens. Like someone exec'ing a shell inside your nginx container at 3am.

Loki vs ELK: Centralized Logging Without the RAM Tax

ELK does everything and wants all your memory. Loki does logging the Prometheus way, label indexes, not content, and runs on a fraction of the resources. Here's the honest comparison.

Prometheus + Grafana: Monitoring That Doesn't Lie to You

Prometheus scrapes metrics. Grafana makes them pretty. Alertmanager wakes you up at 2 AM. Here's how to wire all three together into a monitoring stack that actually works.