Wireshark Packet Capture for a Home Lab
Wireshark is the tool you reach for when you need to see the actual bytes on the wire. It captures…
Category: Monitoring & Observability
Home network monitoring, observability, logging and packet analysis.
Bandwidth Monitoring Tools for a Home Network
Bandwidth monitoring tracks how much data moves across your network and where it goes — per interface, per device, and…
Uptime Kuma Setup Guide: Self-Hosted Status Monitoring
Uptime Kuma is a self-hosted monitoring tool that watches your services and tells you the instant one goes down. It’s…
SNMP Monitoring at Home: Per-Port Switch Visibility
SNMP — Simple Network Management Protocol — is the oldest, lightest way to pull metrics off network gear, and on…
Network Traffic Analysis in a Homelab: Seeing Your Wire
Network traffic analysis in a homelab means going beyond “something matched a signature” to actually seeing the shape of what…
Grafana, InfluxDB and Telegraf for the Homelab
The Grafana, InfluxDB and Telegraf stack — often shortened to the TIG stack — is the standard way to collect,…
ntopng for Home Network Monitoring: Live Traffic Analysis
ntopng is an open-source network traffic monitor that watches every flow on your network and builds a live, browsable map…
Home Network Monitoring and Observability: The Complete Guide
Home network monitoring is the practice of continuously collecting metrics, flows, and logs from your router, switches, and hosts so…