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May 30, 2026

Grafana + Prometheus on Docker: Build a Full Homelab Monitoring Stack

Hey,

New post on IGNA Online — this one is for anyone running a homelab who wants actual visibility into what their machines are doing.

We walk through building a full monitoring stack with Prometheus, Grafana, Node Exporter, and cAdvisor — all containerized, all running from a single docker compose up -d.

What you get: per-core CPU graphs, memory breakdown, disk I/O, container-level stats, alerting, and multi-host support. The setup takes about 10 minutes and costs nothing beyond hardware you already own.

Read the full guide →

— Alex Torres / IGNA Online

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