Series · 8 parts · 5 h 20 in total
Homelab monitoring
From an empty Proxmox host to Prometheus and Grafana watching every VM, every disk, the internet line and the backups, with alerts that reach your phone.
Guides · 22 published · newest first
Step-by-step walkthroughs of projects I have actually finished.
Proxmox, TrueNAS, Active Directory, monitoring and networking, from a home lab run like a small production environment. Written so the commands can be copied and run, with the output you should expect after each step.
Series
Longer builds split into parts. Each part assumes the one before it.
Start with Part 1
Series · 2 parts · 13 h in total
Configuration Manager in a homelab
Almost nothing in Configuration Manager tells you plainly when it is wrong. This series ends with a laptop reimaged over the network with nobody touching it.
All guides
22 guides · about 28 h of building, end to end
- intermediate1 h 30
Nextcloud with Euro-Office on Proxmox: one VM, Docker Compose and a Cloudflare Tunnel
A family cloud with online Word, Excel and PowerPoint editing: a Debian 13 cloud-image VM, Nextcloud, PostgreSQL, Redis and Euro-Office in Docker Compose, published through a Cloudflare Tunnel with no open ports, plus the three pitfalls that cost the most time.
- beginner15 min
Update Immich on TrueNAS safely: release notes, snapshots, one script
A safe way to update Immich on TrueNAS: read the release notes, take snapshots, and update with one script.
- intermediate1 h 30
A second domain controller on Proxmox with the free Windows Server 2025 evaluation
Add a second domain controller on Proxmox, set up DNS on both, and check that Active Directory copies between them.
- intermediate30 min
Homelab monitoring · Part 8 of 8
Backup monitoring with Proxmox Backup Server
See the last backup of every VM and container, find guests with no backup, and know when storage will be full.
- intermediate30 min
Homelab monitoring · Part 7 of 8
An ISP report card with outages, ping and speed tests
Record internet outages, ping and speed tests, and get an alert when your internet is down or slow.
- intermediate40 min
Homelab monitoring · Part 6 of 8
Internet traffic with pfSense
See your internet traffic per day and month from pfSense, import your old history, and keep two years of data.
- intermediate1 h
Homelab monitoring · Part 5 of 8
Home Assistant, Windows servers, Uptime Kuma, and a one-command rebuild
Add Home Assistant, your Windows servers and Uptime Kuma to Grafana, plus one script that rebuilds everything.
- beginner25 min
Homelab monitoring · Part 4 of 8
Alerts to your phone
Free phone alerts with ntfy when a server stops, a disk gets hot or storage fills up, and again when it is fixed.
- intermediate30 min
Homelab monitoring · Part 3 of 8
Ready-made dashboards, sorted into folders
Ready-made Grafana dashboards for Proxmox, your NAS and UniFi, loaded from files, with fixes for panels that show wrong values.
- intermediate1 h
Homelab monitoring · Part 2 of 8
Every VM, the NAS and the Wi-Fi
Add every Proxmox VM and container, your TrueNAS and your UniFi devices to the monitoring from Part 1.
- beginner45 min
Homelab monitoring · Part 1 of 8
Prometheus and Grafana on Proxmox
Set up Prometheus and Grafana in a small container on Proxmox to collect and show numbers from your homelab.
- intermediate45 min
A second AdGuard Home that keeps DNS working when the first one dies
Run a second AdGuard Home that stays in sync, so DNS keeps working when the first one fails.
- intermediate50 min
One page showing the health and temperature of every disk in the house
See the health and temperature of every disk on one page, spot disks that are slowly failing, and get phone alerts.
- beginner45 min
A family status page for your homelab with Uptime Kuma
Watch your homelab with Uptime Kuma, get phone alerts, and give your family a simple green or red status page.
- advanced5 h
Configuration Manager in a homelab · Part 2 of 2
Patching and Deploying Windows Over the Network with Configuration Manager
Patch Windows from your own server, then reinstall a laptop over the network without touching it.
- advanced8 h
Configuration Manager in a homelab · Part 1 of 2
Enterprise Endpoint Management with SCCM/MECM: A Complete Homelab Build
Build a full Configuration Manager lab on two VMs, from setup to a laptop reinstalled over the network.
- intermediate45 min
Fix high swap usage on Proxmox without buying RAM
High swap on Proxmox often means your guests were given too much memory. Measure what they use and fix it.
- advanced1 h 15
Install Immich on TrueNAS with GPU acceleration, and migrate a library without losing faces or albums
Photos on large HDDs, the database on fast NVMe, a working Intel GPU, and a move that keeps all faces and albums.
- intermediate15 min
Publish a public website on the same domain your Active Directory owns
If Active Directory uses the same domain as your website, computers inside cannot open the site. Here is the fix.
- beginner20 min
How to migrate data from a UGREEN NAS to TrueNAS SCALE with rsync
Copy terabytes from a UGREEN NAS to TrueNAS with rsync in tmux, so a lost connection does not start it again.
- intermediate1 h
Jellyfin on TrueNAS with media on HDD and everything else on NVMe
Install Jellyfin on TrueNAS with media on large HDDs and the database on fast NVMe, so the app stays fast.
- intermediate30 min
Get a UGREEN US3000 UPS reporting properly on TrueNAS SCALE
Make a UGREEN US3000 UPS show charge, battery voltage and load on TrueNAS, and keep it working after updates.
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