Monitoring

A Homelab Monitoring Starter Stack: What to Watch on Day One With Free Tools

Diana Vos

October 20, 2026

Graylog vs Grafana Loki for Homelab Logs: Full-Text Search or Cheap Labels

Jesse Cole

October 17, 2026

LibreNMS vs Zabbix for Monitoring Home Network Switches and Access Points over SNMP

Grace Lin

October 17, 2026

Beszel vs Netdata for Monitoring a Few Home Servers: A Light Agent or Per-Second Everything

Ivo Markham

October 16, 2026

Pushover vs a Telegram Bot for Homelab Alerts: A Paid Push App or a Free Chat Channel

Nadia Pell

October 16, 2026

Apprise vs ntfy for Homelab Notifications: One Library for Every Service or One Push App

Omar Fenton

October 16, 2026

Is Beszel enough on its own, or do you still want Uptime Kuma next to it?

Jonah Hale

October 7, 2026

Which monitor has to live on a different machine than the service it watches?

Jonah Hale

October 7, 2026

Uptime Kuma vs Better Stack: Who Watches Your Services When the Box Is the Outage

Omar Fenton

September 27, 2026

Healthchecks.io Slack vs ntfy: Which Failure Still Reaches You When the Laptop Is Shut

Diana Vos

September 22, 2026

ntfy on the Same Box as Kuma: The Alert Path That Dies With the Outage

Omar Fenton

September 22, 2026

Healthchecks.io Alternatives When You Already Run Kuma: Cron Pings That Still Lie

Diana Vos

September 18, 2026

Uptime Kuma + ntfy: When the Dashboard Is Green and Your Phone Stays Dark

Omar Fenton

September 18, 2026

Healthchecks.io Cron vs Uptime Kuma Push: Jobs That Look Alive After a Silent Fail

Diana Vos

August 25, 2026

ntfy vs Pushover vs Gotify: Which Homelab Alert Path Still Wakes You

Omar Fenton

August 25, 2026