I recently switched my home lab from ProxMox VMs to HashiCorp Nomad, Consul, Vault and containers running on bare metal servers, and I needed a way to monitor this stack, my applications as well as external systems that I care about.

I’ve been setting up a small home lab for testing various things out and I needed some space for virtual machines. I don’t have any requirements for insane performance, but I also didn’t want a really sluggish setup, so here’s what I did…

It took me a little while to figure this out, so for anyone stuck on this, here’s what I did.