Docker

I’d had Grafana dashboards for months. What I didn’t have was anything that told me when something broke — I had to remember to look. This is the alerting layer that fixes that, built on top of the existing Prometheus stack, plus the three things that got in the way. Stack: Prometheus · Alertmanager · ntfy · Docker 1. The gap I’d been ignoring My lab had a healthy observability stack: Prometheus scraping metrics, node_exporter for the host, snmp_exporter pulling throughput off pfSense, all drawn in Grafana. It looked complete. ...

Deploying Authentik as a self-hosted identity provider, and wiring Grafana into it with OIDC — so a service that has never heard of MFA suddenly requires it. Stack: Authentik · Caddy · Grafana · Docker · Debian 1. Purpose Every self-hosted service arrives with its own login. Ten services means ten accounts, ten passwords, and ten places to forget to enable MFA. Worse, some services have no authentication at all and just quietly assume nobody hostile is on your network. ...

Building a self-hosted password vault with a genuinely trusted TLS certificate and zero inbound ports open to the internet — and the four-layer debugging session that stood between me and a working container. Stack: Debian 13 · Docker · Caddy (custom build) · Vaultwarden · pfSense · WireGuard · DuckDNS 1. Purpose Self-hosted services are easy to do badly. It’s trivial to run a container, forward a port, click through a certificate warning, and call it done — and end up with something less secure than the cloud service you replaced. ...