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+# 🚀 CedOps — AI Infrastructure Operations NOC
+
+![Dashboard](docs/screenshots/dashboard_v1.png)
+
+## Overview
+
+CedOps is an **AI-Assisted Infrastructure Operations Platform** designed to provide centralized monitoring, observability, uptime management, and operational visibility across a hybrid environment of:
+
+- 🏠 Homelab Infrastructure
+- ☁️ VPS Cloud Infrastructure
+- 🤖 AI Operations Systems
+- 🌐 Public-Facing Services
+- 📡 Network & Platform Health
+
+The platform combines:
+
+- **Prometheus** for metrics collection
+- **Grafana** for visualization
+- **Blackbox Exporter** for service monitoring
+- **Node Exporter** for infrastructure metrics
+- **Tailscale** for secure private observability
+- **Proxmox VE** for virtualization
+- **Docker** for service deployment
+
+---
+
+# 🎯 Project Goals
+
+CedOps was built to simulate a **real-world Platform Engineering / Infrastructure Operations environment**.
+
+Goals:
+
+✅ Single-pane-of-glass infrastructure visibility  
+✅ Secure observability without exposing services publicly  
+✅ Hybrid monitoring (on-prem + cloud)  
+✅ Public service uptime tracking  
+✅ AI platform monitoring  
+✅ Portfolio-grade infrastructure engineering project
+
+---
+
+# 🏗️ Architecture Overview
+
+```text
+                    Internet
+                        │
+            ┌───────────┴───────────┐
+            │   Public Services     │
+            │ synthossystems.com    │
+            │ noc.chasedumphord.com │
+            │ cedshomelab.com       │
+            └───────────┬───────────┘
+                        │
+                 Blackbox Exporter
+                        │
+                        ▼
+               Prometheus Monitoring
+                (10.10.30.140)
+                        │
+        ┌───────────────┼────────────────┐
+        │               │                │
+        ▼               ▼                ▼
+   Proxmox Nodes    K3s Cluster     Hetzner VPS
+   Node Exporter    Monitoring      synthos-node-1
+                                         │
+                                   Node Exporter
+                                         │
+                                     Tailscale
+```
+
+---
+
+# 🖥️ Dashboard Features
+
+## Executive Health
+
+- VPS Status
+- Public Services Status
+- NOC Health Score
+- Uptime Metrics
+
+## Infrastructure Monitoring
+
+- CPU Usage
+- Memory Utilization
+- Disk Usage
+- Network Traffic
+
+## Public Service Monitoring
+
+Tracked via Blackbox Exporter:
+
+- CedOps
+- n8n
+- Paperclip
+- Synthos Website
+- Ced's Home Lab
+- Grafana
+- Prometheus
+
+## Reliability Monitoring
+
+- HTTP Status Codes
+- Response Times
+- Endpoint Availability
+- Service Reachability
+
+---
+
+# 📸 Dashboard Screenshots
+
+## CedOps Infrastructure NOC (V1)
+
+![Dashboard V1](docs/screenshots/dashboard_v1.png)
+
+---
+
+# 🔒 Security Architecture
+
+CedOps prioritizes **secure observability**.
+
+### No Public Prometheus Exposure
+
+Infrastructure metrics are collected using:
+
+**Tailscale private networking**
+
+Benefits:
+
+- Encrypted communication
+- Zero Trust access
+- No public metrics exposure
+- Private infrastructure scraping
+
+### Monitoring Stack
+
+| Tool | Purpose |
+|------|---------|
+| Prometheus | Metrics collection |
+| Grafana | Visualization |
+| Blackbox Exporter | Uptime checks |
+| Node Exporter | Linux system metrics |
+| Tailscale | Secure networking |
+| Docker | Service deployment |
+| Proxmox | Virtualization |
+
+---
+
+# 📂 Repository Structure
+
+```text
+cedops-ai-infrastructure-noc/
+│
+├── docs/
+│   ├── architecture/
+│   ├── screenshots/
+│   └── sops/
+│
+├── grafana/
+│   └── cedops-ai-infrastructure-noc-v1.json
+│
+├── prometheus/
+│   ├── prometheus-example.yml
+│   └── blackbox-targets-example.yml
+│
+├── diagrams/
+│   └── cedops-architecture.mmd
+│
+└── README.md
+```
+
+---
+
+# 🛠️ Skills Demonstrated
+
+### Platform Engineering
+- Infrastructure Monitoring
+- Observability Design
+- Service Reliability
+- Secure Networking
+
+### DevOps
+- Linux Administration
+- Docker
+- YAML Configuration
+- Troubleshooting
+
+### Cloud & Infrastructure
+- Hetzner VPS
+- Proxmox Virtualization
+- Hybrid Infrastructure
+- Private Networking
+
+### Monitoring & Observability
+- Prometheus
+- Grafana
+- Blackbox Exporter
+- Alerting
+- Metrics Design
+
+---
+
+# 💼 Resume Relevance
+
+This project demonstrates real-world experience with:
+
+**Platform Engineering**  
+**Infrastructure Monitoring**  
+**Observability Engineering**  
+**DevOps Workflows**  
+**Cloud + On-Prem Hybrid Systems**
+
+---
+
+# 🔮 Roadmap
+
+## V2 Dashboard
+
+- SSL Expiration Monitoring
+- Alert Feed
+- SLA Tracking
+- Reliability Scoring
+- Capacity Metrics
+
+## Future Enhancements
+
+- Telegram Alerts
+- Discord Notifications
+- AI Incident Detection
+- Automated Remediation
+- Multi-Environment Monitoring
+
+---
+
+# 👨‍💻 Author
+
+### Chase Dumphord
+
+Digital Systems Engineer | Infrastructure & Platform Engineering | Observability | AI Systems
+
+GitHub: https://github.com/ced4568
+
+Portfolio:
+- https://chasedumphord.com
+- https://noc.chasedumphord.com
+- https://cedshomelab.com
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