/tags/prometheus/ Recent content in Prometheus on SQP Dev Hugo en-gb Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/2026-05-19-homelab-monitoring/ Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/2026-05-19-homelab-monitoring/ <p>If you run a home server, you probably have a rough idea of whether things are working — you can SSH in, run <code>top</code>, check disk space, maybe peek at some logs. But that&rsquo;s reactive. You only look when something feels wrong. Proper monitoring means you know before something breaks, or at the very least, you know the moment it does.</p> <p>This is the story of how I set up a full observability stack on my home server, <strong>bitfrost</strong> — an Ubuntu 24.04 machine running several Docker-based apps.</p>