Another week, another part of the homelab dashboard series! This week we will finally bring all of our work into Grafana so that we can see some pretty pictures. Before we dive in, let’s take a look at the series so far: An Introduction Organizr Organizr Continued InfluxDB Telegraf Introduction Grafana Introduction pfSense FreeNAS What is Grafana? Grafana is the […]
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As we continue on our homelab dashboard journey, we’re ready to start populating our time-series database (InfluxDB) with some actual data. To do this, we’ll start by installing Telegraf. But, before we dive in, let’s take a at the series so far: An Introduction Organizr Organizr Continued InfluxDB Telegraf Introduction Grafana Introduction pfSense FreeNAS What is Telegraf In part 1 […]
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Now that we have our foundation laid with a fresh installation of Debian and Organizr, we can now move on to the data collection portion of our dashboard. After all, we have to get the stats about our homelab before we can make them into pretty pictures. Before we can go get the stats, we need a place to put […]
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I frequent /r/homelab and recently I’ve read a number of posts regarding how to get licensing for your homelab. Obviously, there are plenty of unscrupulous ways to get access to software, but I prefer to keep everything on my home network legit. So, how do you do that? Software licensing is somewhat difficult for regular software and it isn’t any […]
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I know, I know…I promised InfluxDB would be my next post. But, I’ve noticed that Organizr is not quite as straight forward to everyone as I thought. So today we’ll be configuring Organizr and InfluxDB will wait until our next post. Before we continue with configuring Organizr, let’s recap our series so far: An Introduction Organizr Organizr Continued InfluxDB Telegraf […]
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Welcome to Part 2 of the my soon to be one million part series about building your own Homelab Dashboard. Today we will be laying the foundation for our dashboard using an open source piece of software name Organizr. Before we dig any deeper into Organizr, let’s re-cap the series so far (yes, only two parts…so far): An Introduction Organizr […]
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