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HomelabMonitoringStack

4 articles·55 min total reading time
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Build Log17 min read

I Built a 9-Service Homelab Monitoring Stack and Shipped It as a Product — Here's the Full Build Log

A chronological build log of creating a complete homelab monitoring stack with Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, cAdvisor, Alertmanager, and Uptime Kuma — 9 Docker services, 7 dashboards, 68 panels, 23 alert rules. Every decision and error documented.

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Tutorial21 min read

Deploy a Complete Homelab Monitoring Stack with Docker Compose: Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and 23 Alert Rules

Step-by-step tutorial for deploying a 9-service monitoring stack on any Linux server. Prometheus for metrics, Loki for logs, Grafana for dashboards, Alertmanager for notifications, plus Proxmox and Uptime Kuma. One docker compose up and you have 7 dashboards and 23 pre-configured alert rules.

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Guide10 min read

Monitoring Proxmox with Grafana and Prometheus: A Practical Setup

How to monitor Proxmox VMs, LXC containers, node health, and storage from Grafana using the PVE Exporter and Prometheus, with pre-built dashboards and alert rules.

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Guide7 min read

9 Docker Compose Patterns I Use in Every Homelab Stack

Practical patterns from a production 9-service monitoring stack — environment defaults, health checks, memory limits, and the small details that prevent 3 AM debugging sessions.