Monitoring Realm Labs didn’t start as one big project. Like most things in the home lab, it grew. Initially, I just wanted to know whether a Raspberry Pi was getting hot. Then I wanted to know what Proxmox was doing.…
Raspberry Pi MQTT monitoring is a simple way to bring useful system health data into Home Assistant without installing a full monitoring platform on every device. In Realm Labs, Raspberry Pi systems often sit in the background running automation, scripts,…
As Realm Labs grew, I already had Prometheus and Grafana giving me detailed metrics about the infrastructure. CPU load. Memory. Storage. Network interfaces. Service performance. That was useful, but it answered a very specific question: What I also wanted was…
