Infrastructure
Consolidating homelab alerting with Apprise
How I centralized Prometheus, RouterOS, Proxmox, QNAP, and Uptime Kuma notifications through Apprise, an SMTP relay for email-only devices, and a few sharp edges worth knowing.
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Insights & Thoughts
Insights on technology, leadership, productivity, and personal growth in the tech industry.
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Infrastructure
Monitoring UniFi Devices with Prometheus and Grafana
How I wired UniFi Poller into the homelab monitoring stack, which Grafana dashboards expect which metrics, and what broke before the exporter started scraping cleanly.
Infrastructure
Automating Unbound Root Key Recovery After Power Failures
How I stopped SSHing into Pi-hole nodes after unclean shutdowns: an ExecStartPre hook that removes and regenerates Unbound's DNSSEC trust anchor before the resolver starts, with systemd, logging, and Ansible.
Infrastructure
Setting Up Network Performance Testing Infrastructure
How I added automated WAN and LAN performance monitoring to my homelab using Prometheus and Grafana, and what I learned from tracking network performance over time.
Infrastructure
Verifying DNS Leak Protection in the Homelab
Understanding DNS leaks, why they matter for privacy, and how to verify that your Pi-hole and Unbound setup isn't leaking queries to your ISP or third-party DNS providers.
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