Homelab Monitoring — Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Exporters on Docker
Every homelab needs observability. Not because you’re running a production SLA — because you can’t fix what you can’t see. Running out of disk on the ZFS pool at 3 AM, a Docker container silently OOM-killed, or the Frigate NVR eating 100% CPU for hours — these are the things you catch with a monitoring stack, not by noticing the UI feels sluggish. This post covers a full Prometheus + Grafana + Loki stack deployed on Docker in a Proxmox LXC, with metrics from the host, Docker containers, and system logs collected into one dashboard. ...