Grafana OnCall + Webhooks: Paging Without PagerDuty
Self-host Grafana OnCall as a free PagerDuty alternative: escalation policies, Alertmanager webhooks, and phone alerts for your home lab (plus the 2026 catch).
Tag: self-hosting
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Healthchecks.io Self-Hosted: Cron Monitoring
Self-hosted Healthchecks.io for cron monitoring with dead-man-switch alerting, Docker setup, and backup integration. Never miss a silent failure again.
Vector vs Fluent Bit: Modern Log Shippers
Vector vs Fluent Bit log shippers: Rust-based transforms and sinks vs lightweight C agent. Config, VRL, footprint, and when each wins.
Push vs Pull Metrics: Pushgateway, Pushprox, and Why
Prometheus pull metrics are great until they aren't. When batch jobs, NAT, and ephemeral containers break scraping, Pushgateway, PushProx, and alternatives explained.
Blackbox Exporter: HTTP/TCP/DNS/ICMP Probes
Blackbox exporter Prometheus probes HTTP TCP DNS ICMP synthetic monitoring without paying for Pingdom or SaaS uptime tools
Self-Host SigNoz: Install Guide
SigNoz killed install.sh and its bundled Compose files. Here's how to self-host it with Foundry, wire an app via OTLP, and set retention and alerts.
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.
rclone Crypt: Encrypted Cloud Buckets That Stay Yours
Client-side encryption with rclone crypt keeps your cloud backups opaque to providers. Key management, filename encryption, and restore drills for B2, S3, Drive.