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@cora I started with Grafana but felt it was to complex for my needs. Nowadays I used Beszel for node monitoring and Gatus for service uptime monitoring. Quite happy with that #homelab #monitoring

Question for the #homelab nerds out there.

I have a running family of projects (well more like a breakfast club of misfits) that I've been deploying to my "lab" (by which I mean, currently, a mediocre #raspberrypi), currently stitched together with docker-compose.

An important underlying theme to this effort, and a reason why I'm sticking with the pi, is a focus upon resource-constrained, high-efficiency, self-contained, open-source computing. Kinda the opposite of the vibe of the times, I know, but I think it's important.

I suspect I'm far from alone in this, and I'm curious: what are other folks working on projects like this use for observability? So far, I'm cobbling my own together with shell scripts and instrumentation in the code (using #tokio tracing if it matters).

I don't really want to go down the "standard" bobsled run that ends with an army of proxmox vms and various free-tier accounts on cloud-based services... again, resource-constrained and self-contained. It feels like we used to have tools like this, when every server was a pet; surely those haven't gone away?

Search results, unfortunately, are twenty pages of "The N best homelab observability stacks in 2026! (Number N-M will suprise you)" AI-generated marketing blogslop, all of which I've sampled launch an aforementioned sled.

So, asking here. Tips solicited. Retoots welcome.

#askfedi

I Finally Started a Homelab — on My MacBook

https://thanksstevenkim.vivaldi.net/tech-fediverse/256/

Mission erfüllt! #ceph #cluster läuft mit 6 OSDs und der backbone schnurrt wie ein Kätzchen. Stromverbrauch ist mir zu hoch, werde mir aber bissel Zeit lassen und rum experimentieren. Gibt noch viel zu tun!
#proxmox #homelab #highavailability #10gbit #nerdistan

This morning I tested my backup recovery in my #homelab @homelab

I restored FreshRSS into a separate namespace to avoid conflicting with the live deployment.

* Velero restored the k8s resources and the app volumes (extensions)
* Barman (CNPG) rebuilt the database from its own backup
* I logged into FreshRSS, checked my data, and everything worked as expected

Restoring is the only way to know a backup works!

Traefik v3.7.11 patches 4 CVEs and ships a wave of Kubernetes CRD and ingress-nginx fixes. Read the migration guide before upgrading. #selfhosted #homelab

https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v3.7.11

Tianji v1.32.25 adds owner-based worker editing, giving you finer control over who can manage your monitoring workers #selfhosted #homelab

https://github.com/msgbyte/tianji/releases/tag/v1.32.25

AFFiNE 0.27.4 brings GPT 5.6 and Gemini 3.7 support, better memory usage during GC, and improved BYOK model editing. Heads up: major breaking changes to server config and version compatibility. #selfhosted #homelab

https://github.com/toeverything/AFFiNE/releases/tag/v0.27.4

Today’s local LLM adventure: after updating LM Studio, my RTX 3090 dropped from 60-70 tk/s to 12-18.

Logs showed only 54 layers offloaded to GPU, despite max GPU offload and GPU-only settings. The rest was on sys CPU + RAM.

The annoying fix was switching from CUDA12 to CUDA or Vulkan. Both fixed it, with CUDA slightly faster. CUDA12 is forcing CPU offload for some reason.

TIL: if local LLM speed tanks after an update, check actual GPU layer offload and runtime.

#LLM #LMStudio #AI #Homelab

Getting My iCloud Photos Onto My Own Storage with ImmiBridge - ImmiBridge pulled 51,000 photos and videos out of iCloud and into my self hosted Immich server over a single weekend. Here's how the setup and the sync actually went.
https://jasontucker.blog/getting-my-icloud-photos-onto-my-own-storage-with-immibridge/ #immich #selfhosted #homelab

Les presento lo que será la base de mi nuevo homeserver / homelab en proceso de construcción. Una vieja placa madre Asrock Fatal1ty X99M Killer y el cerebro un procesador Intel Xeon E5-2699 v4. Estoy armando algo bien potente que soporte todas mis ideas. 🙌🏻🤓

#Homelab #Selfhosting #Homeserver #Nas #FediÑoñeando

Elegante, minimale al punto giusto, nonostante qualche piccolo bug, sto rivalutando molto Phanpy.
Tra le funzionalità più interessanti: post programmati, caroselli dei reblog e visione migliorata dei toot multipli.

Potete usare l'istanza offerta dai Devol, oppure, essendo un frontend, è uno dei progetti più semplici da selfhostare.

https://phanpy.mastodon.uno

@opensource @fediverso @phanpy @cheeaun

#mastodon #fediverso #phanpy #frontend #social #opensource #foss #floss #homelab #selfhosting

📢 New #updates · 21 Aug #15.1

· Big-AGI v2.1.0 — Added six vendors, updated models, and added transcription framework
· Homarr v1.76.0
· Convoy v26.7.3 — Postgres added as queue provider, rebuild indexes from dashboard

Browse everything at https://selfhost.directory

#homelab #database #docs #monitoring

Traefik v2.11.55 patches two CVEs and fixes several Kubernetes CRD naming collisions. Check the migration guide before upgrading. #selfhosted #homelab

https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v2.11.55

Yay. BGP advertisements for a network that was available only on one routeros box to my main router running opnsense is working now :)
#learning #bgp #routeros #mikrotik #opnsense #homelab

“Apple and UniFi.”

“Name two companies with better packaging than most food.”

#HomeLab #Apple #UniFi #Ubiquiti #UbiquitiNetworks #MSP #networking

The most real homelab tour you’ll see on YouTube this week! #selfhosting #homelab

Homelab Hardware Tour 2026 Edition
https://youtu.be/vktLEFH7t7c

Shane wants to make his homelab less janky so needs to decide on how to split up his compute and storage, plus some of the KVM over IP devices we own and how we use them.

https://hybridcloudshow.com/hcs63/

#podcast #linux #homelab

Achievement unlocked: #cablep0rn lvl: velcro

#homelab #nerdistan

After getting to the office, I figure out that something's not working my home lab.I Panic, head home, spend hours figuring out what's happend. It turns out that the fan had been failing, the SSD overheated and shutdown, system was running from ram. This was not fun.

#homelab

#GenZ/A is the rise from the ashes generation, the cohort of the #phoenix to the millennial's optimism as #johnthebaptist

#solarpunk #diy #homelab #genz #philosophy #bloomscrolling #hopecore #recoverycore #mentalillness #mentalhealth #art #starvingartists