The homelab
A small fleet of servers running the house, the agents, and the metrics.
A practical homelab, not a museum. Three machines doing real work:
- svr001 — the primary box. Unraid, a stack of Docker containers, the metrics database, the dashboards.
- svr002 — a Mac mini. Runs the OpenClaw gateway and a handful of services that prefer Apple silicon. Always on.
- svr003 — an off-site Raspberry Pi. Cold backup target, deliberately boring.
The shape of what it does:
- Home Assistant + Zigbee2MQTT for lights, climate, presence, energy, and a few medical reminders.
- TimescaleDB as the home metrics store, fed by per-minute pollers and queried directly by Grafana.
- Cloudflare Tunnel for anything that needs to be reachable from outside, without opening ports.
- New Relic infrastructure agents on everything; Grafana for the dashboards I actually look at.
The interesting bit isn’t the kit — it’s the discipline of treating it like a production environment of one. Posts about specific corners of it will live under the homelab tag.