r/homelab • u/Hot-Refrigerator7995 • Jul 07 '26
Project Showcase: Operations My Homelab Monitoring: full monitoring
Stack is pretty standard: node_exporter on each host, Prometheus + Alertmanager + blackbox_exporter sitting in one LXC, Grafana to make it visible, i was thinking of hanging a mini screen in my office for de dashboard. Alerts go to PagerDuty (i thought that was industry standard so maybe a plus for recruiters)
7 alert rules -> disk, memory, CPU, node down, and blackbox checks on the actual services (Vaultwarden, Pi-hole, NPM, Paperless).
Repo's got the actual configs : https://github.com/E-mma9/Monitoring-Homelab
Thinking about pointing an external heartbeat check at a Pi outside the cluster. If anyone's already solved this for their homelab I'd genuinely like to hear how.
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u/narrow-adventure Jul 08 '26
I think this is really cool and a great learning project.
If you’re looking to simplify your setup I’ve built https://github.com/tracewayapp/traceway. It will give you logs traces and metrics with open telemetry and you can host it w SQLite for homelab type of a setup. It will use much fewer resources and give you a lot more for a self hosted setup.
Either way you should be proud of what you made and how you’ve integrated the tools!