A Grafana Node Exporter Full dashboard showing CPU, memory, network and disk usage

Homelab Monitoring with Grafana, Loki, Prometheus and Alloy

How I centralised logs and metrics for my homelab with Grafana, Loki, Prometheus and Grafana Alloy, and what I learned about push-based collection, alerting and code-generated dashboards.

October 1, 2026 · Updated October 14, 2026 · 9 min · Roland Hill

3-Node Proxmox Cluster on EliteDesk Minis

A 3-node Proxmox cluster on EliteDesk Mini PCs: shared iSCSI storage on a dedicated storage VLAN, HA for the services that matter, and backups that no longer depend on a single box.

February 22, 2026 · Updated October 14, 2026 · 7 min · Roland Hill
Diagram of passkey SSO: browser to identity provider, then OIDC apps or nginx forward-auth

Passkey Single Sign-On for My Home Lab with Authentik

One passkey, one sign-in, thirteen admin interfaces. How I built single sign-on for my home lab with Authentik, which apps I left out on purpose, and why every app still has a break-glass way in.

October 9, 2026 · Updated October 14, 2026 · 9 min · Roland Hill
Diagram of the home lab suite: public site, LAN-only console, private Git server, knowledge base and the hypervisor cluster underneath

My Home Lab Suite: A Guided Tour

A start-here tour of my home lab as one connected suite, from the Proxmox cluster and mail server to publishing, media, electronics and brewing, with a link to every project write-up.

October 2, 2026 · Updated October 8, 2026 · 8 min · Roland Hill