Category: Observability & System Health
Real-time telemetry, Netdata, Uptime Kuma health monitoring, centralized Loki logging, and NUT UPS management.
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Out-of-Band Infrastructure Monitoring: Deploying Uptime Kuma & AutoKuma on an External VPS
Deploy Uptime Kuma out-of-band on an external cloud VPS to monitor your homelab and home ISP. Pair with AutoKuma for declarative GitOps monitor management via TOML files and instant Ntfy…
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Linux Power & Thermal Governance: AMD P-State, Intel Energy Preferences, and Container Resource Limits
Home servers and homelab virtualization nodes run 24/7. Poor CPU frequency scaling and unconstrained container loops lead to high electricity bills, fan noise, and thermal throttling. This operational guide covers…
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Modern Homelab Observability: Netdata Telemetry & Uptime Kuma Health Checks
In early sysadmin workflows, monitoring meant installing Monit to poll PID files or ping ports, firing off basic email alerts when a process died. While functional, it lacked real-time metrics,…
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Centralized Homelab Logging: Vector, Grafana Loki, and Structured JSON Telemetry
Searching through disjointed log files across multiple VPS instances, TrueNAS servers, and Docker containers with journalctl and grep is time-consuming and inefficient during outages. Modern infrastructure aggregates all system, container,…
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Networked UPS Management: Network UPS Tools (NUT) and Graceful Automated Shutdown
Sudden power loss causes data corruption, damaged SSD flash blocks, and incomplete database transactions. An enterprise homelab requires an automated Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) monitoring daemon that coordinates graceful server…
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Homelab Notification Pipelines: Multi-Channel Alerts with Webhooks & Ntfy
Traditional email alerts sent via local SMTP (sendmail/postfix) frequently get blocked by ISP spam filters or fail silently. Modern operations rely on real-time, lightweight push notifications via webhooks. This guide…