I’ve done a lot of blogging about building your own homelab dashboard. I’ve shown how to configure amazing tools like Organizr and Grafana. But, at the end of the day, Organizr is just too much for what I want and need. I started off with a version of a dashboard built original by Gabeisonfire over at /r/homelab. I heavily modified […]
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So…it’s been just a little while since I actually posted anything. Life got busy…another baby came, and work has been out of control busy. Things have started to settle down now so hopefully I can get back to blogging again. Since it has been so long since my last post, today we will start by upgrading Telegraf. When I last […]
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Last week we dug into IPMI. We started by getting IPMI working outside of Telegraf and then transitioned into Telegraf. This week we’ll start down the path of SNMP. This will likely not be the only post on SNMP and Telegraf, but it will be a good start. Before we dive in, as always, we’ll look at the series so […]
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After a break for some homelab diagrams, its time to drive back into our homelab dashboards! This post will focus on collecting stats from IPMI sources using Telegraf. Before we dive in, as always, we’ll look at the series so far: An Introduction Organizr Organizr Continued InfluxDB Telegraf Introduction Grafana Introduction pfSense FreeNAS IPMI What is IPMI? If you are […]
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My posts seem to be getting a little further apart each week… This week, we’ll continue our dashboard series by adding in some pretty graphs for FreeNAS. Before we dive in, as always, we’ll look at the series so far: An Introduction Organizr Organizr Continued InfluxDB Telegraf Introduction Grafana Introduction pfSense FreeNAS FreeNAS and InfluxDB FreeNAS, as many of you know, […]
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After a small break, I’m ready to continue the homelab dashboard series! This week we’ll be looking at pfSense statistics and how we add those to our homelab dashboard. Before we dive in, as always, we’ll look at the series so far: An Introduction Organizr Organizr Continued InfluxDB Telegraf Introduction Grafana Introduction pfSense FreeNAS pfSense and Telegraf If you are […]
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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 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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