Watch Your Homelab: Monitoring, Alerts and Logs for Proxmox, Docker and Home Assistant with Prometheus, Grafana, Uptime Kuma and ntfy

Watch Your Homelab builds the monitoring stack that tells you first, and only when it matters. Most homelabs find out something broke when a person notices: the photos app won't load, the lights stop responding, a disk filled overnight. This book answers three questions for every machine you run (is it up, is it healthy, what happened?) with free, self-hosted tools: Uptime Kuma checks from the outside, Prometheus with node_exporter and cAdvisor for metrics, the Proxmox and Home Assistant exporters, Grafana dashboards that each answer one question, alert rules routed to your phone through ntfy, and logs in Loki shipped by Grafana Alloy. Real Compose files, real configs, and versions checked against each project's official releases at the time of writing (October 2026).

What you get

• The three-questions model, and which tool answers each one
• Uptime Kuma monitors, retries, push heartbeats for backups and cron jobs, and a status page
• Self-hosted ntfy push to Android with access tokens and a priority ladder
• A Prometheus, node_exporter and cAdvisor stack with sane retention limits
• Proxmox metrics through prometheus-pve-exporter with a read-only PVEAuditor token, Home Assistant's Prometheus integration, SMART disk health and UPS status through NUT
• Dashboards for CPU steal, disk fill ETA with predict_linear, and the rest of a small, useful set
• Alert rules with for: durations, severities and Alertmanager routing, so your phone stays quiet until it shouldn't
• Logs from journald and Docker into Loki with Grafana Alloy (Promtail reached end of life on March 2, 2026)
• A runbook template, a disk budget for the monitoring guest, and a monthly review
• The Weekend Monitoring Checklist and a cheat sheet

58 pages, 25 diagrams plus a chapter-opener graphic for every chapter, a checklist and a cheat sheet. PDF and EPUB. Homelab the Right Way, Book 7.

Not sure yet? Read the free sample first: the cover, the full table of contents and all of Chapter 2, "Is It Up? Uptime Kuma" (outside-in uptime checks and phone alerts for your whole lab in an afternoon), at https://payhip.com/b/cIY8z

Also in a bundle: Everything Bundle: every ebook in the store, $89 · Homelab Bundle, $59. Code RIGHTWAY20 = 20% off any order through Oct 31.