You’re fine. Thanks for the follow up.

Awesome!

As cool and neato as I find AI to be, I haven’t really found a good use case for it in the selfhosting/homelabbing arena. Most of my equipment is ancient and lacking the GPU necessary to drive that bus.

But I know what the answer is and it’s not as exciting as I’d like it to be.

At least you would know, and you would learn something new as I have done. I have set up to monitor syslogs, ufw logs, assorted metrics so far. I’m going to tackle using cAdvisor and ingest the data into Prometheus and display such data on my Grafana dash.

It’s fun and educational. Try it. At the very least when you’ve worn all the new off, you can just delete the docker containers.

I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news. I read up on it about an hour ago. Of course, just as I finally get things running, they switch horses. le sigh…c’est la vie

Thank you for the reply. I guess I am thinking, why have multiple Prometheus instances running, eating up resources, when I could do it with just one.

I have a follow up question about cadvisor, if you have a minute. Cadvisor employ Redis and Prometheus. If I understand correctly, you configure Prometheus to scrape Docker logs. All fine and good. However, my Grafana stack already employs Prometheus to do the same, just for syslogs and such, but not Docker. Can I not place the contents of the Cadvisor/Prometheus config in the existing Prometheus implementation used with Grafana, or does Cadvisor need it’s own Prometheus instance.

alloy

I was just commenting that I’m going to have to figure out how to migrate to Alloy now as Prom is nearing it’s eol.

It was like running windows. The more I fed it, the more it belched and devoured more. LOL Now I see that I am going to have to figure out Grafana Alloy, as Prom is nearing it’s eol in '26. Le sigh… that’s the way it goes.

Huh. I don’t know anything about that. I wonder if it’s because Grafana hooks into more sensitive points on your server and that triggers VT.

When you’re 70, you need all the help in the remembering dept you can get.

I digitally collect odd things, selfhosted in several apps depending on if it’s for ‘read later and decide’ or preserve… For one, I like the etymology of words or phrases and how they’ve evolved in meaning, and in some instances bastardized the meaning. For another, I collect political cartoons from any country. I am fascinated how some of the ones I’ve read about, have changed some people’s minds. Things I find educational. Things that are totally polar opposite me. You’d be surprised what you learn even tho you may still remain opposed. So these are a back up of a backup which gets backed up, lol, It’s the source files if you will, and I archive them in another app however I still keep the source as a backstop.

I’ll end with this as an example since this might be misconstrued as not about selfhosting, As a wee lad, someone donated a set of Encyclopedia Britannica to us. I read those cover to cover many times. So, with the help of self hosting and dedicated devs around the globe, thank you so very much for being so generous with your skills and time, I can continue my quest to know.

TL:DR: I’m just a weird, old man.

LOL

LOL Never thought of it like that, but yeah.

Just 2k in bookmarks? Pffft! Those are rookie numbers. Check back when you have 59k bookmarks. Currently there are 1.1k in the broken links category. The vast majority of the links are topics I research or have interest in, exterior of self-hosting. I do not consume TV data, but I do a ton of reading. I find that reading gives me better retention of the topic, and it’s rather easy to highlight & search for cross comparisons, and further research. Ever since I was a wee lad, barely able to read, I have had an insatiable lust for knowing. It is this that drives the link counts. LOL

That was fast.

hmmmm Thanks for the tip. I’ll check into it

ETA: Looks like I’ll be looking for something else. Le sigh…c’est la vie

This looks interesting. I currently run Alist but this seems to have a lot more going on. Might have to spin it up and give it a go. In reading up on it, there were some issues back in '23 that parts of the UI are presented in Chinese with no means of the user fixing that. Is this still an issue?

I am not going to go as far as to say ‘VNC is dead’, it does have use cases. I selfhost two apps that use the KasmVNC, and while that’s cool and all, and it gets the job done, I’d have to say it’s rather clunky. This all could be because I’m dense and using it wrong, but say I fire up an app that uses KasmVNC. To log in, I have to copy the password to the PC clipboard, paste it into the KasmVNC clipboard, and then right click in the app password dialogue box and paste it from KasmVNC clipboard. I can’t just copy the password to the PC clipboard and paste it into the app I’m trying to run with KasmVNC. Because of this, it doesn’t recognize Bitwarden inputs either. Other than that, VNC does work, but boy I’d try to avoid it in a corporate setting.

Those photos are only a just-in-case for insurance.

Cool. The insurance angle has helped me on a couple of occasions. Had a piece of farm equipment disappear. Had all the surveillance replete with photos of the equipment and snapshots of serial numbers. The process was rather painless with all of that. I highly recommend people go through at least once a year and take a digital inventory, especially big ticket items.