Smokeping is the Simple Way to Monitor Pings in Your Home Lab
Network latency can absolutely kill your performance. If you have noticed y our virtual machines lagging, or your Docker containers struggling to pull images down. Or, if you have felt…
Meet ProxMenux Monitor: The New Way to Monitor Proxmox Servers
So I had to do a double take when I looked at the ProxMenuX repo and saw that with the latest release there is a new tool that is included…
10 Things You Should Back Up in Your Home Lab (But Probably Don’t)
There is definitely a checklist of things that I think are good to mention when it comes to backing up things in the home lab. We all know about “backups”…
5 Signs It’s Time to Upgrade Your Home Lab Hardware
One of the strengths I think to the home lab community is that we all try to squeeze as much as we can out of our gear. Many of us…
Why I Switched to Zabbix for Monitoring My Docker Containers
Monitoring your home lab infrastructure is one of the most important things you can stand up and learn about. Otherwise, yes, you can still have fun in a home lab…
