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<p>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 <a href=https://www.netdata.cloud/>netdata</a>. 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.</p>
<p>Additionally, all of these different agents can be connected to <em>netdata cloud</em>, 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.</p>
<p><a href=https://prometheus.io/>Prometheus</a> metrics combined with <a href=https://grafana.com/>Grafana</a> is another popular way of visualizing metrics as well as setup alerting. These are powerful tools that many companies use in production systems. If you are looking for inspiration, check out <a href=https://home.cern/>CERN</a>&rsquo;s <a href=https://monit-grafana-open.cern.ch/>public Grafana</a>.</p>
<p><a href=https://grafana.com/>Grafana</a> 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 <a href=https://www.wikimedia.org/>Wikimedia</a>&rsquo;s <a href=https://grafana.wikimedia.org/>public Grafana</a>.</p>
<h2 id=in-summary>In Summary</h2>
<p>Building out a homelab can be incredibly rewarding and it doesn&rsquo;t always require buying a rack full of expensive servers to get a significant amount of utility.</p>
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