For those who don’t follow updates in the Telegram channel rtfmcoua or are visiting my blog for the first time, a reminder that for the last couple of months I’ve been building a “self-hosted home stack”, which already includes a couple of MikroTik devices and a ThinkCentre running FreeBSD. On the ThinkCentre / FreeBSD I… Read More »
There’s this cool thing called self-hosted home pages. I saw them somewhere on Reddit a while back, saved them to bookmarks, and now that I have all this self-hosted stuff with NAS (see FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1), Grafana, and other useful things for work and daily life – I thought it would be nice… Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
A lot of emails from various periodic tasks arrive in the root user’s local mailbox. I previously wrote a bit about periodic scripts in FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 5 – ZFS pool, datasets, snapshots, and monitoring; now it’s time to set up email forwarding to an external address. Since these emails arrive daily and reading… Read More »
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 »
I had been thinking about trying MikroTik for a long time, but I was always a bit too lazy to delve into RouterOS. Finally, riding the wave of the Home NAS project setup (see the beginning in FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1 – setting up ZFS mirror), I decided it was time to upgrade my… Read More »
In the previous post of the Home NAS on FreeBSD setup series, we got acquainted with restic – a utility for working with backups that supports encryption, snapshots, and change history; see FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 8 – backup of NFS and Samba data with restic. However, in addition to archival data in S3, I… Read More »
For a couple of months now, my work laptop, a Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 5 running Arch Linux, has been having trouble opening new websites – for the first 10-15 seconds, the site loads in “pieces”, for example: But then it “wakes up”, and everything starts working perfectly: Finally, when I started setting up a… Read More »