Build a Homelab Dashboard: Part 8, FreeNAS

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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Build a Homelab Dashboard: Part 7, pfSense

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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Build a Homelab Dashboard: Part 6, Grafana Introduction

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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Build a Homelab Dashboard: Part 5, Telegraf Introduction

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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Build a Homelab Dashboard: Part 4, InfluxDB

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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Build a Homelab Dashboard: Part 1, An Introduction

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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