I sync my podcasts hourly with Nextcloud and poddersync, so when my servers go down, my phone beeps at me.
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I use Signoz and OTel collectors to bring in everything from Kubernetes (and also SNMP-to-OTel for the network and NAS stats.)
That covers dashboards and basic alerting. Then on top of that I have an n8n workflow that runs every morning - it pulls all the main stats out of Signoz, as well as issues and their status from my infrastructure repo in Gitlab, and feeds it all into a local LLM (Qwen-3.8-Flash-Next at the moment), which emails me a report on overall cluster health. It also automatically opens a ticket in Gitlab for anything that might need fixing.
It works really nicely, gotta say.
I have a basic dashboard set up in my home assistant that I never check. Don't even know how it works, I forgot. That's why I really want to just put my whole setup in code. That's why nothing is happening, the chore just seems so daunting.
So I listen for complains ringing through the house and react accordingly.
I go the easy route with munin and wazuh. It comes with a ton of stuff preconfigured
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| AP | WiFi Access Point |
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider |
| LXC | Linux Containers |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| NFS | Network File System, a Unix-based file-sharing protocol known for performance and efficiency |
| RAID | Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage |
| SSH | Secure Shell for remote terminal access |
| TLS | Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL |
| ZFS | Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity |
10 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 14 acronyms.
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Uptime Kuma for outages, Prometheus for metrics, rsyslog to Loki backend for logs. Grafana for ingesting Prometheus and Loki data.
Gatus. Works and easy incremental set up.
Ultime Kuma, Beszel and Ntfy
Icinga and Phare Uptime
I just look at the console.
I run UptimeKuma for monitoring a couple of things, but honestly, I’m pretty much my only user and my homelab is independent of the regular home network, so I don’t really care too much. I’ve been considering some simple log monitoring… when I get around to it :-)
Netdata, looking at dashboards when something breaks :)
My 3-node Proxmox cluster has a dashboard, my NAS has a dashboard, and Home Assistant has a dashboard. Hell, my gaming PC has a dashboard, too (Webmin and Cockpit).
Grafana dashboard
You can find more details and the source code here: https://erasmus.works/
Ooooo, that looks nice.
Beszel & Pangolin.
Prometheus & Grafana
Cockpit on each server (microos) and bezel for a lite centralized monitoring/alert stack. I have a bespoke gitops on each server running ansible hourly, and ntfy pings for failure on these. Also healthchecks.Io for heartbeat/backups, other critical infra checks
SNMP.
The old engine was nagios. The new engine will be telegraf -> mqtt -> brokerfest -> timescale -> Prometheus.
I guess. Not sure yet. The brokerfest is a series of broker pubsub between sites to both split out data from the stream for off-site CC, or pull its own subscriptions in. Data could go host <- telegraf -> broker -> remote broker -> remote timescale -> remote Prometheus
Beszel, uptime kuma, wazuh
When logged in locally, I use btop to see an overview of what's happening.
Other than that, I have relevant Prometheus exporters in every machine (node exporter in all machines, specific exporters by the workload), hooked up over Wireguard to my monitoring solution offsite.
The phone I actually carry around has a ntfy client talking to ntfy server on the aforementioned monitoring solution, so I get buzzes when something goes down.
Btw, does anybody happen to know where I could get a pre-cooked comprehensive alert system for my nodes? Surely many people have already written all these rules:
- if disk space > 80% consumed, send a low-priority alert
- if disk space > 95% consumed, send an urgent alert
- ... everything else, there's so much to check...
A script checks container status and accessibility, and pushes a ntfy alert if it goes down. Healthchecks.io reports if the whole Pi goes down.
I vibe coded a monitor that shows me all the logs and other stuff. And im using netbird cloud (free version) to setup dns so all my services have url "servicexyz.home.internal".
So i just connect to netbird vpn on my phone and go to that url.
You can pretty much use any of the other tools mentioned in this thread with this kind of setup, heck you can write a simple fastapi server that just runs "top" and return it (it would be like 20-30 lines of python) over a url that you can from anywhere as long as you are connected to your vpn