monitoring
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home lab
Checkmate Monitoring for Free Open Source Docker Solution for Uptime Monitoring
I am always on the lookout for great new open-source tools for monitoring and management in the home lab and in production environments. I am a huge fan of Uptime Kuma as a monitoring solution, and other tools like Prometheus…
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Computers
Netdata 2.0 Adds Native Windows Monitoring Support
I have been trying out Netdata monitoring for the past few weeks now and I can say that it is a super simple solution to get up and running with quickly. So, it is a quick win in home labs…
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home lab
Netdata Docker Monitoring for Home Lab
I have been playing around with a lot of Docker monitoring solutions to monitor my critical Docker containers. There are many great open source solutions you can use for Docker monitoring, including cAdvisor and Node Exporter which I have written…
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Monitoring
TICK Stack with Docker Compose Example
In thinking through my monitoring needs and a few projects I have coming up in mind, I wanted to spin up a fresh monitoring stack using the “Tick” stack. Let’s look at the Tick Stack with Docker Compose example and…
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Monitoring
Netdata VMware vSphere Monitoring Configuration
Netdata has come onto the scene as a very easy-to-configure and quick time-to-value monitoring solution. It is cloud-based, and you can easily use it to monitor endpoints on-premises, including virtualization and hypervisor environments like VMware vSphere. Table of contentsWhat is…
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DevOps
Top 25 DevOps Automation Tools in 2023
In this guide, we’ve compiled the top 25 DevOps automation tools in 2023 (plus 1) to help you enhance your workflow and streamline your software development processes. What DevOps automation tool are you using? Note the following popular DevOps automation…
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Monitoring
Server Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana
Many great free and open-source monitoring solutions are available for monitoring your servers and applications. In case you have not heard about the free and open-source monitoring solution, Prometheus, we will look at the Prometheus node exporter to scrape metrics…
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Containers
Monitor docker containers with 6 Free tools
When you have numerous containers running in your environment, whether in production or in your home lab, you need to have Docker container monitoring tools. These allow you to monitor docker containers running on your container hosts or swarm clusters…
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Monitoring
Web Monitoring Software for Small Business environments
Small businesses often have to do a lot with a little, in terms of the technology tools they can purchase and the budgets they have to work with. Small businesses may have a very small virtualized environment that is self-hosted…
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VMware Monitoring
IPMI Monitoring Supermicro VMware Servers with PRTG
If you are like me, you may be a bit of a monitoring geek when it comes to your home lab and production environments. Proper monitoring can help to quickly identify issues in the environment that might not be noticed…
