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Homelab Observability Series

Complete 4-part guide

  1. 1

    The LGTM All-in-One Stack - Unified Observability for Homelabs

    Part 1 of my observability series: How a single container provides logs, metrics, traces, and profiling for a homelab Kubernetes cluster.

  2. 2

    Metrics Collection - From Kafka JMX to Kubernetes Events

    Part 2 of my observability series: Setting up metrics exporters for Kafka, PostgreSQL, and Redis, plus cluster-wide monitoring with Grafana's k8s-monitoring.

  3. 3

    Distributed Tracing - Istio, OpenTelemetry, and Tempo

    Part 3 of my observability series: How distributed traces flow from Istio through OpenTelemetry to Tempo, and why 100% sampling makes sense for a homelab.

  4. 4

    Alerting Done Right - Grafana, Crossplane, and Discord Notifications

    Part 4 of my observability series: Managing alerts as code with Crossplane, routing to Discord, and the alerts that actually matter for a homelab.

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