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Store NUT metrics in Prometheus so we can display them with Grafana

I ordered a second UPS because thanks to PeaNUT, I saw that my current UPS is only providing 20 minutes of uptime. Unfortunately, as of this post, PeaNUT will only read one UPS’ metrics from Network UPS Tools per PeaNUT instance, so I’m going to start scraping the metrics into Prometheus and displaying them with Grafana. Here’s how I did it. ...

April 21, 2024 · 3 min · 524 words · Me

Setup Prometheus and Grafana in Your Homelab

I wanted nice graphs for the various metrics I collect in my homelab and from my Home Assistant server. Here’s how I installed Prometheus and Grafana in my homelab to get them. ...

April 13, 2024 · 6 min · 1256 words · Me

Set up nut-upsd and peanut in your homelab

Set up nut-upsd and peanut in your homelab I run my Synology server and network switches off a UPS. I decided I wanted a dashboard for the UPS, here’s how I did set up Network UPS Tools, aka NUT, and the PeaNUT dashboard. ...

April 6, 2024 · 5 min · 932 words · Me

Released ha-mqtt-discoverable 0.12.0

Released ha-mqtt-discoverable 0.12.0 ...

November 22, 2023 · 1 min · 62 words · Me

Weird Home Assistant Scripts Bug

I ran into a weird Home Assistant scripts issue when I upgraded to 2023.11 from 2023.06 (I know, but I didn’t need the new features and had higher priority stuff to deal with) last week. After the update, when I went to add or edit a script, I started seeing 500s. After some messing around, I eventually moved the couple scripts I had from scripts.yaml as inline scripts in configuration.yaml, restarted, and when I went to edit them, HA offered to migrate them into scripts....

November 22, 2023 · 1 min · 174 words · Me