Last Friday, Comcast went down. I don’t know why. Comcast doesn’t really explain itself. One moment there was internet; the next moment there wasn’t, in the proud tradition of cable ISPs everywhere. The UniFi Dream Machine Pro Max did exactly…
How I built a full Prometheus, Loki, and Grafana observability stack covering a home Unraid setup and a remote four-node Proxmox cluster on enterprise Dell hardware, and what it took to get logs and metrics flowing from every host across both sites.
If you’ve read my post about fixing my media pipeline, you know Q4D is the glue that holds the whole thing together. It’s the piece that gets completed downloads from a remote seedbox back to your home NAS automatically, so…
My media setup was a mess. Not “a few things could be better” kind of mess. More like “nothing has imported successfully in months and I had no idea because I wasn’t watching logs” kind of mess. Here’s how I…
Update: As I’ve been jumping back into my homelab adventures, I realized I had this post in my drafts folder partially finished. While I’ve moved on from this configuration, it’s worth at least posting it in case someone else wants…
What is a Home Lab you might ask? A lab is a place to experiment and learn, safely. For those working in IT, it allows us the ability to learn and experiment with hardware/software that would normally be used in…
When I started my currently role at the Institute for Cyber Science I was handed a fairly large VMware environment, at least in my career, and tasked with making it better. We started with 16, 2-socket, 512GB Dell M630 blades…