Monitoring for HomeLab

If you are just looking from the devops tools angle or just need to see how your ebook service uptime is behaving - you will need some Monitoring.

If you are building, dont be scare of the http status codes: https://it-tools.tech/http-status-codes

And see these tools for internet monitoring

You can also make a avg internet speed test when downloading OSS OS via P2P or when uploading your videos to youtube.

You might see these kind of status pages around: https://status.perplexity.com/, see https://instatus.com/pricing

Or even advanced ones like:

Not only AWS will have outages.

But also cloudflare…and Github

PortMaster

PortMaster vs HTTPs

Stacer

Using Stacer in a HomeLab

You can try with a NetData or a custom Grafana dashboard for monitoring:

Netdata Monitoring

OpenSpeedTest and a TPLink

Testing a Travel Router

SpeedTest Tracker on a GL MT3000

Or just with Beszel:

Beszel Setup

Monitoring with Beszel

Also, with Uptime Kuma, you can get quickly an uptime pages for your services:

Uptime Kuma status pages example: https://status.tromsite.com/status

DevOps for Non DevOps x UpTime Kuma

UpTime Kuma can monitor ping and http requests

See also how Peekaping

Testing PeekaPing Status Pages

Monitoring services and embedding their status

<p>
    <img src="https://your-peekaping-instance.com/api/v1/badge/api-monitor/status" alt="API Status" />
</p>

As I have it running locally: http://192.168.1.2:8383/monitors these are rendered via hugo server

Which can be embeded into your posts and websites via its API, like:

![My Local Service Status](http://192.168.1.2:8383/api/v1/badge/1e12dabc-e962-4cd7-b808-ee08c994ec53/status)

Another option, is Kener

Rather than a way to admire how people have created static status pages: https://open-slum.pages.dev/ nor get…things online.

Uptime monitor / status pages in cloudflare pages

Or Tianji, which does more than just web analytics:

Using Kener Monitoring

Testing Kener Status Pages

Using Tianji

Testing Tianji Server Monitoring and WebAnalytics on a VPS

Internet Monitoring

Whether you have a homelab or you are just tired of you ISP, you might need these.

• https://www.speedtest.pl/
• See also speed.cloudflare.com

ip addr show
hostname -I

#sudo apt-get install net-tools
#ifconfig

ping -c 4 192.168.3.1 #gateway
ping 9.9.9.9 #quad9

sudo apt-get install dnsutils -y #dns resolution
nslookup github.com 
dig google.com

curl -sS https://ipinfo.io/json #the command to use
curl -sS http://ip-api.com/json/ #provides info about country, ISP, ...
curl -6 ifconfig.me #ipv6 info 

1. Open Speed Test: OST

We can use OpenSpeedTest together with Container and Portainer to deploy the docker compose.

Just go to OST UI dashboard at: localhost:6040

2. SpeedTest CLI:

sudo apt-get install speedtest-cli
speedtest-cli #speedtest-cli --simple
#npm install -g fast-cli

3. Speed Test Tracker:

I mentioned about SpeedTest-Tracker, which we can use to test our internet connectivity:

echo -n 'base64:'; openssl rand -base64 32; #generte API key

Now the container image is provided by lscr instead of GHCR:

Go to the UI at: http://192.168.1.101:8089/ with default creds admin@example.com and password