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Prometheus and Grafana handle metrics well. What they don’t do natively is active black-box probing actually reaching out to an endpoint on a schedule and confirming it responds. That’s normally solved with blackbox_exporter, which works but requires writing and maintaining…
Home Assistant is very good at reacting to things a door opens, a sensor trips, a time of day arrives. It’s less good, out of the box, at continuously polling whether your Nextcloud instance, your reverse proxy, or your Pi-hole…
Why Monitoring Matters in a Home Lab A Proxmox home lab tends to grow quietly. You start with one VM, then a couple of LXC containers for Pi-hole and Home Assistant, then a Docker host for a handful of self-hosted…
Ask “Uptime Kuma or Beszel?” in a homelab forum and you’ll get answers that talk past each other, because the question itself is malformed. It’s like asking whether you need a smoke detector or a thermometer. Both tell you something…
Choosing a monitoring tool usually comes down to one question first: do you want to run it yourself, or pay someone else to? Everything downstream cost, setup time, reliability, who’s on the hook when it breaks flows from that one…
A monitor that goes down silently is worse than no monitor at all — it gives you false confidence. This handbook walks through connecting Uptime Kuma to three of the most popular notification channels: Discord, Telegram, and Gotify. Each section…
Table of Contents Backup Fundamentals Uptime Kuma Backup & Migration refers to the process of securely saving your Uptime Kuma monitoring configuration and moving it to another server, system, or environment when needed. A proper backup preserves important data such…
Coming three weeks after Plasma 6.7.3, the fourth maintenance update to the Plasma 6.7 desktop series, Plasma 6.7.4, has been released by the KDE Project, including a further set of stability enhancements and bug fixes for KWin, Discover, Spectacle, the new Plasma…
Collabora Productivity has released Collabora Online 26.04, the latest production-ready version of its open-source, browser-based office suite for editing and collaborating on documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. This release follows CODE 26.04, which is the freely available Collabora Online Development Edition for…
The Tails team has released Tails 7.10, the latest update to the privacy-focused Debian-based Linux distro that routes internet traffic through the Tor network and minimizes traces on the host computer. A key change is a new shutdown procedure based…
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