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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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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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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