Ced's Home Lab

How I Built a Live NOC Dashboard for My Homelab Using Grafana + Prometheus

Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

How I built a real-time homelab NOC dashboard using Grafana, Prometheus, Blackbox Exporter, Kubernetes, and Proxmox to monitor infrastructure like an enterprise environment — and the hard lessons learned along the way.

I Found a Dell Tower in the Trash. Five Years Later It's a 6-Node Proxmox HA Cluster.

Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The story behind Ced's Home Lab — how a discarded Dell tower turned into a 6-node Proxmox HA cluster running Grafana, Prometheus, Kubernetes, TrueNAS, and enterprise-grade homelab infrastructure.

Ebooks

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Technical Ebooks

Practical guides on homelab infrastructure, Kubernetes, observability, and DevOps — written from real production experience, not theory.

All ebooks are available on Gumroad. Follow the store to get notified when new titles drop.

Follow on Gumroad →

Coming Soon

Title	Topic	Status
The Homelab Starter Kit	Proxmox, networking, storage from scratch	In progress
K3s on Raspberry Pi	12-node Kubernetes cluster build	Planned
Prometheus & Grafana from Zero	Full observability stack setup	Planned
Cloudflare Tunnels Handbook	Zero open ports, secure exposure	Planned

Built by a Digital Systems Engineer at GE Aerospace — all infrastructure documented here is real and running 24/7.