Arbitrary thoughts, mostly on computery stuff. See Projects for more longform howtos.

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I’ve set up a self-hosted Grafana instance complete with metrics storage using Mimir, central log storage with Loki, and remote sending of data from my servers using the Alloy agent.

I couldn’t find any good resource describing the complete process, so I’ve documented my setup, and am sharing the documentation via my Projects page.

Happy monitoring!

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