You guys are monitoring your servers?

I notice something stopped working, or someone in the household notices.

Then I go fix it.

Use service, wait for 404 or data loss...

I have the best detector for issues with my self hosted services: my wife!

They're in my attached garage. In the living room when it's quiet I can hear them humming. Does that count?

I have a basic dashboard set up in my home assistant that I never check. Don't even know how it works, I forgot. That's why I really want to just put my whole setup in code. That's why nothing is happening, the chore just seems so daunting.

So I listen for complains ringing through the house and react accordingly.

My primary monitoring system is Beszel, but since I just migrated from VMs to LXCs it can’t properly see the memory/CPU usage, so it just checks for disk usage and liveliness. Home assistant with Proxmox & Dockhand integrations gives me the rest of my monitoring needs.

Monit, simple to setup, gets the job done, runs on my router too.

I use Signoz and OTel collectors to bring in everything from Kubernetes (and also SNMP-to-OTel for the network and NAS stats.)

That covers dashboards and basic alerting. Then on top of that I have an n8n workflow that runs every morning - it pulls all the main stats out of Signoz, as well as issues and their status from my infrastructure repo in Gitlab, and feeds it all into a local LLM (Qwen-3.8-Flash-Next at the moment), which emails me a report on overall cluster health. It also automatically opens a ticket in Gitlab for anything that might need fixing.

It works really nicely, gotta say.

Beszel, uptime kuma, wazuh

I run UptimeKuma for monitoring a couple of things, but honestly, I’m pretty much my only user and my homelab is independent of the regular home network, so I don’t really care too much. I’ve been considering some simple log monitoring… when I get around to it :-)

I go the easy route with munin and wazuh. It comes with a ton of stuff preconfigured

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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Gatus. Works and easy incremental set up.

Icinga and Phare Uptime

Ultime Kuma, Beszel and Ntfy

I just look at the console.

Uptime Kuma for outages, Prometheus for metrics, rsyslog to Loki backend for logs. Grafana for ingesting Prometheus and Loki data.

Prometheus & Grafana