The Homelab SLA | The IT Guy Show 025

Most of us treat our homelabs like a junk drawer. Mathias Palmersheim does not. He does monitoring at serious scale for a living at VictoriaMetrics, and he brought that same discipline home, running his personal lab against an actual SLA.

A few things worth carrying away from this one:

• VictoriaMetrics, briefly. We covered what the time series database is for, why high cardinality gets painful fast, and why open source observability matters even outside the enterprise.
• Holding yourself to an SLA. What it actually takes to run a real uptime commitment at home when there is no boss checking, and what breaks the plan.
• Rigor worth borrowing. Which enterprise monitoring habits translate to a home setup, and where it tips into overkill.

If you’ve ever wondered what happens when a monitoring expert points all that expertise at his own network, this is your answer.