How to Set Up a Self-Hosted Grafana + Prometheus Monitoring Stack
Running a homelab without proper monitoring is flying blind. You don’t know when your disk is about to fill up, when your RAM spikes, or when a container silently dies — until something breaks. Grafana and Prometheus fix that. Together, they give you gorgeous real-time dashboards and deep metrics for every server, container, and service you run. This guide walks you through setting up a complete Grafana + Prometheus monitoring stack using Docker Compose. By the end, you’ll have live dashboards showing CPU, RAM, disk, network, and container stats — all self-hosted, no cloud dependency. ...