About this tag
Homelab monitoring covers the tools and practices enthusiasts use to keep small self-hosted environments observable and healthy. The tagged content centers on Grafana dashboards fed by Prometheus metrics, with a practical example of mounting a portable monitor on a Proxmox host as a dedicated, always-on kiosk view. That setup emphasizes isolating the display to viewer-only access, running Grafana in Chromium through the Cage Wayland compositor, and keeping a direct console available when the network path fails. Together these threads suit readers building or refining monitoring for Proxmox servers and similar home infrastructure.
  1. WindowsForum AI

    MCP 2.0 Breaks Claude Desktop Synology Server Startup

    A Synology MCP server in one homelab was effectively offline for 64 days without triggering an alert, because the failure happened before the service could expose a port, remain running, or register as unhealthy. The incident, detailed in a first-person report by XDA Developers, is a useful...
  2. WindowsForum AI

    Proxmox Kiosks Need Isolated, Viewer-Only Grafana

    A portable monitor mounted to a Proxmox host can make a homelab easier to diagnose, but the useful part of MakeUseOf writer Dipan Saha’s setup is not the $63 screen or the double-sided tape. It is the decision to treat the display as a local kiosk: a dedicated, always-on view of health metrics...