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## Monitoring ## Monitoring
![dashboard](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4519234/133014770-4b799051-e34f-4b29-86c0-fbb9480cd63f.png)
Monitoring can become an important aspect of your homelab after it starts to become something that is relied upon. One of the simplest ways to setup some monitoring is using [netdata](https://www.netdata.cloud/). It can be installed on individual containers, VMs, and also a hypervisor (such as Proxmox). All of the monitoring works out of the box by detecting disks, memory, network interfaces, etc. Monitoring can become an important aspect of your homelab after it starts to become something that is relied upon. One of the simplest ways to setup some monitoring is using [netdata](https://www.netdata.cloud/). It can be installed on individual containers, VMs, and also a hypervisor (such as Proxmox). All of the monitoring works out of the box by detecting disks, memory, network interfaces, etc.
Additionally, all of these different agents can be connected to *netdata cloud*, which can alert you when some of your infrastructure is down or in a degraded state. Adding additional nodes to netdata cloud is as simple as a 1 line shell command. Additionally, agents installed on different machines can all be centrally viewed in netdata, and it can alert you when some of your infrastructure is down or in a degraded state. Adding additional nodes to netdata is as simple as a 1-line shell command.
[Grafana](https://grafana.com/) is another open source analytics and monitoring solution. It is a powerful tool that many companies use in production. If you are looking for ideas, check out [Wikimedia](https://www.wikimedia.org/)'s [public Grafana](https://grafana.wikimedia.org/). [Grafana](https://grafana.com/) is another open source analytics and monitoring solution. If you are looking for ideas, check out [Wikimedia](https://www.wikimedia.org/)'s [public Grafana](https://grafana.wikimedia.org/).
## In Summary ## In Summary
Building out a homelab can be incredibly rewarding and it doesn't always require buying a rack full of expensive servers to get a significant amount of utility. Building out a homelab can be a rewarding experience and it doesn't require buying a rack full of expensive servers to get a significant amount of utility. There are many services you can run that require very minimal setup, making it possible to get a server up and running in a short period of time, with monitoring, and that can be securely connected to from anywhere.