Another week, another part of the homelab dashboard series! This week we will finally bring all of our work into Grafana so that we can see some pretty pictures. Before we dive in, let’s take a look at the series so far: An Introduction Organizr Organizr Continued InfluxDB Telegraf Introduction Grafana Introduction What is Grafana?…
As we continue on our homelab dashboard journey, we’re ready to start populating our time-series database (InfluxDB) with some actual data. To do this, we’ll start by installing Telegraf. But, before we dive in, let’s take a at the series so far: An Introduction Organizr Organizr Continued InfluxDB Telegraf Introduction What is Telegraf In part…
There are no less than three blog posts about running a batch script from Workspace floating around the internet. I believe the first originated from Celvin here. While this method works great for executing a batch, you are still stuck with a batch. Not only that, but if you update that batch, you have to…
Now that we have our foundation laid with a fresh installation of Debian and Organizr, we can now move on to the data collection portion of our dashboard. After all, we have to get the stats about our homelab before we can make them into pretty pictures. Before we can go get the stats, we…
I frequent /r/homelab and recently I’ve read a number of posts regarding how to get licensing for your homelab. Obviously, there are plenty of unscrupulous ways to get access to software, but I prefer to keep everything on my home network legit. So, how do you do that? Software licensing is somewhat difficult for regular…
I know, I know…I promised InfluxDB would be my next post. But, I’ve noticed that Organizr is not quite as straight forward to everyone as I thought. So today we’ll be configuring Organizr and InfluxDB will wait until our next post. Before we continue with configuring Organizr, let’s recap our series so far: Part 1,…
If you attended my recent presentation at Kscope18, I covered this topic and provided a live demonstration of MDXDataCopy. MDXDataCopy provides an excellent method for creating functionality similar to that of Smart Push in PBCS. While my presentation has all of the code that you need to get started, not everyone likes getting things like…
Welcome to Part 2 of the my soon to be one million part series about building your own Homelab Dashboard. Today we will be laying the foundation for our dashboard using an open source piece of software name Organizr. Before we dig any deeper into Organizr, let’s re-cap the series so far (yes, only two…
