Monthly Archives: February 2026

FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 14 – logs with VictoriaLogs and alerts with VMAlert
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28 February 2026

A continuation of the home NAS setup series. Monitoring in general has already been configured in previous parts, but log management still needs to be set up – because doing it in the console with tail -f /var/log/messages is certainly possible – but there are more convenient tools available. We’ll use VictoriaLogs – especially since… Read More »

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ilert: an alternative to Opsgenie – first impressions, Alertmanager, Slack
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24 February 2026

I think all Opsgenie users are aware that Atlassian is killing is shutting down the project. I’ve been using Opsgenie since 2018, got used to it, and overall it had everything I needed from an alerting system – a bit rough around the edges in places, but the necessary integrations worked and were easy enough… Read More »

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FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 11 – extended monitoring with additional exporters
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10 February 2026

In the previous post FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 10 – monitoring with VictoriaMetrics and Grafana, we configured VictoriaMetrics, node_exporter, Grafana and created a basic dashboard and basic alerts. Now, I want to add a bit more monitoring – to see process CPU/RAM data, SMART information, and ZFS details. Everything written here has been added to… Read More »

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FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 10 – monitoring with VictoriaMetrics and Grafana
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7 February 2026

Finally got around to monitoring. I was interested in running a standard stack with VictoriaMetrics + Grafana + Alertmanager not in the usual Kubernetes with a Helm chart, but simply on the host. However, the approach is the same as monitoring services in AWS/Kubernetes – on FreeBSD, we will have VictoriaMetrics for metrics, Grafana for… Read More »

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