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[CollieLab] Initial Observability Stack

This is the first entry of my "CollieLab" series where I documented my home lab journey.

The current state of the lab hardware is pretty straightforward: a single Vultr $6/m VPS with 1 CPU core & 1GB of RAM.

I've been rocking with this machine for the past month or two, hosting my personal site and a few toy projects without a hitch. Of course, there's not much traffic in any of these services, so not much going on there.

Anyway, I wanted to start monitoring the server as well as how my Docker containers are running. I spent some time the past few days setting up Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and cAdvisor. Everything is super straightforward, so nothing crazy yet, but it feels good to have a sense of how my little machine is doing. Here's how the cAdvisor dashboard looks on Grafana, in all its glory.

My next plan: Analytics & Uptime Monitoring. Stay tuned.