Homelab Monitoring Made Easy - Part 1: Tools Overview - Grafana, Prometheus, InfluxDB, Telegraf

Monitoring and alerting is an essential part of homelabbing. Learn how to deploy Enterprise-grade tools to monitor your lab and anything else you could possibly want to. This video provides an overview of the tools we'll use including deployment steps. The second video details how to collect data and create dashboards. Docker-Compose: https://github.com/JamesTurland/JimsGarage/tree/main/Grafana-Monitoring Recommended hardware: https://github.com/JamesTurland/JimsGarage/blob/main/Homelab-Buyer's-Guide/Q3-2023.md Find me on: Discord: https://discord.gg/qW5vEBekz5 Twitter: https://twitter.com/jimsgarage_ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/Jims-Garage GitHub: https://github.com/JamesTurland/JimsGarage 00:00 - Introduction to Logging & Monitoring 02:51 - Grafana 04:58 - InfluxDB 06:20 - Telegraf 08:38 - Prometheus 09:19 - Promtail & Loki 10:06 - Docker Compose Review 14:32 - Config Files 18:18 - Docker Deployment 20:44 - GUI Testing 24:36 - Outro