Tag: monitoring

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

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 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.

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

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 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.

Wazuh gives you SIEM, HIDS, FIM, and threat detection in one stack. Here's how to deploy it in your home lab with Docker and actually use it.

ctop and lazydocker beat docker stats for live container monitoring. Keybinds, install options, multi-host setups, and tracking a memory leak with each.

You get 50 alerts a day and ignore all of them. That's not monitoring, that's noise. Here's how to build alerts people actually care about.

Shorter intervals = more data. But also more storage, CPU load, and potential instability. Here's the tradeoff you're actually making.

Build one Grafana dashboard that adapts to any host or environment using variables, query, custom, constant, and multi-select types with real examples.