Tag: self-hosting

Blackbox exporter Prometheus probes HTTP TCP DNS ICMP synthetic monitoring without paying for Pingdom or SaaS uptime tools

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.

Master Alertmanager routing trees: severity labeling, inhibition, grouping, and multi-receiver logic for reliable home lab alerts that work at 3 AM

Distributed tracing with Tempo and Grafana for self-hosted multi-service stacks. OpenTelemetry, sampling, exemplars, and when tracing actually matters at home scale.

Mimir for long-term Prometheus storage. S3-backed, horizontally scaled alternative to Thanos for capacity planning and compliance.

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: hierarchical scraping, cross-cluster aggregation, federation vs remote_write, practical config.

Client-side encryption with rclone crypt keeps your cloud backups opaque to providers. Key management, filename encryption, and restore drills for B2, S3, Drive.

TrueNAS Scale ditched Kubernetes for native Docker. Apps catalog vs raw Compose, when each wins, dataset snapshots, and why custom apps took so long.

Four file-sharing protocols compared for home labs: NFS speed, SMB compatibility, SSHFS convenience, WebDAV over HTTP, and which one to pick per use case.

Compare cold storage tiers: Backblaze B2, Storj decentralized cloud, and Scaleway Glacier. Pricing, egress, restore times, and which backup service wins.

Why rsync.net is the no-BS off-site backup target for Restic and Borg: SSH-only ZFS, real Unix support, and what 1.5 cents per GB per month actually costs.