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Observability & Monitoring

You can't fix what you can't see — but you also can't fix what's drowning you in alerts. Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, and Alertmanager set up so they actually help instead of paging you about a normal Tuesday. SLO basics, alert fatigue, log volume that won't melt your disks, and the dashboards worth keeping versus the ones that just look busy.

28 articles in this topic.

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Riemann: The Forgotten Event-Stream Monitor for Home Labs

Riemann processes events as streams, not time-series. Here is why that distinction matters and when Clojure-based stream alerting still beats Prometheus rules.

1 Jun, 2026
10 min read
Glances vs Netdata: Two Free-Tier Monitors Compared

Glances vs Netdata: which free monitor wins for your home lab? We compare install effort, UI quality, alerting, and when to ditch both for Prometheus.

31 May, 2026
10 min read
Sentry Self-Hosted for Application Errors

Run Sentry on your own hardware to catch real application errors — stack traces, source maps, release tracking, alerts, and when you should just pay for SaaS.

30 May, 2026
11 min read
Heimdall vs Homepage vs Homer: Status Dashboards

Heimdall, Homepage, or Homer? Pick the right self-hosted dashboard for your homelab — real configs, Docker auto-discovery, and live API status widgets included.

29 May, 2026
10 min read
cAdvisor + Prometheus: Per-Container Metrics Done Right

Stop guessing which container is eating your RAM. Set up cAdvisor + Prometheus to get real per-container CPU, memory, and network metrics in your homelab.

28 May, 2026
10 min read
Grafana Alloy: Replacing the Agent After Deprecation

Grafana Agent hit EOL in November 2025. Here is how to migrate all your monitoring nodes to Alloy without losing your mind, your metrics, or your dashboards.

27 May, 2026
11 min read