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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If you are reading this post, you either already frequent /r/homelab or you should. There is an entire flair category dedicated to people posting diagrams of their homelabs. It also seems like at least once per week someone is asking the question…how do you create cool homelab diagrams? I thought it would be a good idea to put together a […]
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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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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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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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