Tag: homelab

Overseerr vs Jellyseerr

Overseerr vs Jellyseerr media request UIs: Plex-only vs Jellyfin/Emby. Setup, auth, Sonarr/Radarr integration.

The *arr Stack Without 9000 Reddit Threads

Self-hosted *arr stack (Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, Bazarr) with durable Docker Compose. Hardlinks, folder layout, no breakage.

Synthetic Browser Monitoring with Playwright + Grafana

Set up Playwright synthetic monitoring: scheduled headless browser checks, login flow validation, and pass/fail metrics piped into Grafana dashboards.

Node Exporter Internals That Actually Matter

Which 30 Node Exporter metrics matter for Prometheus monitoring. Skip the 200 noisy ones. Textfile collector trick included.

Grafana OnCall + Webhooks: Paging Without PagerDuty

Self-host Grafana OnCall as a free PagerDuty alternative: escalation policies, Alertmanager webhooks, and phone alerts for your home lab (plus the 2026 catch).

Healthchecks.io Self-Hosted: Cron Monitoring

Self-hosted Healthchecks.io for cron monitoring with dead-man-switch alerting, Docker setup, and backup integration. Never miss a silent failure again.

Push vs Pull Metrics: Pushgateway, Pushprox, and Why

Prometheus pull metrics are great until they aren't. When batch jobs, NAT, and ephemeral containers break scraping, Pushgateway, PushProx, and alternatives explained.

Blackbox Exporter: HTTP/TCP/DNS/ICMP Probes

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

Self-Host SigNoz: Install Guide

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.

SLO/SLI for Home Lab Services

SRE error budgets for home lab. Build Grafana SLO dashboards, understand SLI/SLO, pick sane availability targets.

Tempo + Grafana: Tracing for Self-Hosters

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

Prometheus Federation for Multi-Site Home Labs

Prometheus federation for multi-site home labs: hierarchical scraping, cross-cluster aggregation, federation vs remote_write, practical config.