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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I’ve blogged about EPM for a few years now but I have recently decided to try to spend some more time dedicated to just homelab content. So…what on earth is a homelab and why on earth do I need one? I’ll try to answer this question and provide some resources for those of you interested in starting down the homelab […]
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If you’ve read much of my blog, you know at this point that I like to create “series” of blog posts. Welcome to the latest addition. The topic of this extremely long series? Homelab Dashboards. So what is a homelab dashboard? If you don’t know the answer to this question, you will likely not enjoy the rest of this series…but […]
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It has been quite some time since my last lab update! I’ve done quite a bit of updating since my post in January. Today we’ll focus on my new Garage Data Center. My Oracle rack has finally filled up for the most part and as a result, it has become a little loud and a little hot to stick around […]
» Read moreWelcome to the first installment of a new on-going series about what’s up in my Hyperion Home Lab. First, if you don’t already have your own home lab, why not? Get started by checking out my guide on building your own. And yes…I will get around to updating this series soon. In the meantime, let’s take a look at what’s […]
» Read moreIf you read my blog, you know that I am really into having a home lab. I’ve had a small Norco rack for a while to keep my servers in. It’s worked pretty well for the most part, but as you can see, it is pretty full: You can probably also see that it is very dusty. Now that I’ve decided […]
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