monitoring

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

Ivo Markham

October 16, 2026

Grafana Alerting vs Prometheus Alertmanager: Where Homelab Alerts Should Live

Diana Vos

October 15, 2026

Zabbix vs Prometheus for a Homelab: SNMP Templates or Exporters and PromQL

Jesse Cole

October 15, 2026

Prometheus vs VictoriaMetrics for a Homelab: Disk, RAM and Long Retention on Small Hardware

Jonah Reeves

October 14, 2026

Dozzle vs Grafana Loki for Docker Logs on One Home Server: Live Tail or Searchable History

Ivo Markham

October 14, 2026

Healthchecks.io vs Cronitor for Cron Job Monitoring: Grace Periods, Free Tiers and Alert Routing

Diana Vos

October 13, 2026

Netdata vs Prometheus and Grafana for One Home Server: When the Full Monitoring Stack Is Overkill

Jesse Cole

October 13, 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

A Zapier zap vs a cron job for "ping me if the backup did not run": the silence you mistake for success

Diana Vos

September 23, 2026

A Second Uptime Kuma: When the Monitor Host Is the Thing That Dies

Omar Fenton

September 21, 2026

Gatus vs Uptime Kuma: When a YAML File Beats Another Docker Dashboard

Jonah Reeves

September 21, 2026

Uptime Kuma vs Healthchecks.io for Solo Self-Hosters

Tobias Mensah

April 7, 2026