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Part 2
•Jan 19, 2026
•7 min read
Homelab Alerting with Alertmanager and Free Discord Integration
How to set up free, reliable alerting for your homelab using Prometheus Alertmanager and Discord webhooks.
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Part 1
•Jan 18, 2026
•12 min read
Monitoring My Homelab with Grafana: From Proxmox to Kubernetes
A practical, beginner-friendly observability setup for a two-host Proxmox homelab: Prometheus + Grafana in Kubernetes, scraping Proxmox hosts and Pi-hole.
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