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Home Assistant, cron jobs, watchtower and infrastructure-as-code. Let your server take care of the boring, repetitive tasks so you don't have to.

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TutorialsAutomationIntermediate

How to Set Up Grafana and Prometheus

Stand up a metrics stack with Prometheus, node_exporter and Grafana to visualize your home server's health.

1 min read
GuidesAutomationIntermediate

Home Server Monitoring: A Complete Guide

Monitor your homelab with Uptime Kuma, Prometheus and Grafana — track uptime, temperatures, disk health and get alerts before things break.

2 min read
TutorialsAutomationBeginner

How to Install Uptime Kuma

Monitor every homelab service and get instant alerts when something goes down, plus public status pages — all self-hosted.

3 min read
TutorialsAutomationIntermediate

How to Install Home Assistant

Run Home Assistant on your server for private, local-first smart home automation — installation methods, first integrations and automations.

3 min read
ComparisonsAutomationBeginner

Home Assistant vs openHAB

The two leading open-source home automation platforms compared for homelab users.

5 min read

Comparisons

Home Assistant · openHAB

Home Assistant vs openHAB

The two leading open-source home automation platforms compared for homelab users.

Software

Nextcloud

Your private, self-hosted Google Drive and Office.

Open sourceFreemiumSelf-hosted

Home Assistant

Open-source home automation that runs locally on your server.

Open sourceFreeSelf-hosted

Grafana

Dashboards and visualization for your metrics.

Open sourceFreemiumSelf-hosted

Prometheus

A time-series metrics database and scraper.

Open sourceFreeSelf-hosted

Frigate

Local NVR with real-time AI object detection.

Open sourceFreeSelf-hosted

Glossary

Watchtower

A tool that automatically updates running Docker containers to their latest images.

Cron

The classic Unix scheduler that runs commands automatically at set times.