A live AI operations platform running on Hetzner VPS 8 autonomous agents orchestrated by Paperclip, monitored in real time by Prometheus (hosted on Proxmox homelab) scraping over Tailscale, visualized in a Grafana NOC dashboard.

NOC Dashboard

CedOps dashboards are intentionally versioned to demonstrate increasing operational maturity from foundational observability to SRE style incident response and reliability engineering.

V3 Current (SRE / Incident Response)

Incident Response & Dependencies

Reliability / SLO Monitoring

V2 Operational Reliability

V1 Foundational Observability

Live: Public services monitored every 30 seconds · Prometheus scraping via Tailscale · Grafana visualizing hybrid infrastructure health

Overview

CedOps is a production-style AI operations platform built to simulate a real world Platform Engineering and AI Infrastructure environment.

The VPS stack runs on Hetzner and is monitored by Prometheus hosted on a Proxmox homelab node, communicating over a private Tailscale network with everything visualized in a live Grafana NOC dashboard.

The platform combines:

Paperclip — AI Agent Orchestration Platform managing 8 autonomous agents
SugeBot — Hermes AI agent deployed as Telegram Operations Assistant (CTO/Ops role)
n8n — Automation platform for workflow execution and inter-service routing
OpenRouter — AI model gateway serving as the LLM backbone for all agents
Prometheus — Hosted on Proxmox homelab, scraping VPS services over Tailscale
Grafana — Full observability NOC dashboard visualizing the entire stack in real-time
Nginx Proxy Manager — Reverse proxy + SSL management across all services
Docker + Portainer — Container infrastructure and management layer

Architecture Overview

                        Internet
                            │
              ┌─────────────┴─────────────┐
              │      Cloudflare Edge       │
              │   DNS · Tunnels · Proxy    │
              └─────────────┬─────────────┘
                            │
              ┌─────────────▼─────────────┐
              │       Hetzner VPS          │
              │    synthos-node-1          │
              │                           │
              │  ┌──────────────────────┐ │
              │  │  Nginx Proxy Manager  │ │
              │  │  Reverse Proxy / SSL  │ │
              │  └──────────┬───────────┘ │
              │             │             │
              │  ┌──────────▼───────────┐ │
              │  │      Portainer        │ │
              │  │  Docker Management    │ │
              │  └──────────┬───────────┘ │
              │             │             │
              │  ┌──────────▼──────────────────────────────────┐ │
              │  │              CedOps Platform                  │ │
              │  │                                               │ │
              │  │  ┌─────────────┐   ┌──────────────────────┐ │ │
              │  │  │  Paperclip  │   │       SugeBot         │ │ │
              │  │  │ AI Orch.    │   │   Telegram Ops        │ │ │
              │  │  │  8 Agents   │   │   (Hermes Agent)      │ │ │
              │  │  └──────┬──────┘   └──────────┬───────────┘ │ │
              │  │         │                      │             │ │
              │  │  ┌──────▼──────┐   ┌──────────▼───────────┐ │ │
              │  │  │ OpenRouter  │   │         n8n           │ │ │
              │  │  │ AI Gateway  │   │     Automation        │ │ │
              │  │  └─────────────┘   └──────────────────────┘ │ │
              │  └───────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │
              │              ▲ Node Exporter + Blackbox             │
              └──────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┘
                             │ Tailscale (encrypted private tunnel)
              ┌──────────────┴──────────────────────┐
              │         Proxmox Homelab              │
              │                                      │
              │  ┌─────────────┐  ┌───────────────┐ │
              │  │ Prometheus  │  │    Grafana     │ │
              │  │ Metrics     │→ │  NOC Dashboard │ │
              │  │ Collection  │  │                │ │
              │  └─────────────┘  └───────────────┘ │
              └─────────────────────────────────────┘

AI Agent Roster

All agents run inside Paperclip the AI Agent Orchestration Platform at paperclip.synthossystems.com.

Agent	Role	Status
Suge	CTO / Operations (Hermes Agent) — also deployed as SugeBot on Telegram	✅ Live
CEO	Executive decision-making and strategic oversight	✅ Live
ClaudeCoder	Software engineering and code generation	✅ Live
Engineer	Infrastructure and systems engineering	✅ Live
Marketing	Marketing strategy and content	✅ Live
Offer Builder Agent	Sales offer generation and pipeline	✅ Live
Research	Market research and intelligence gathering	✅ Live
Sales Agent	Lead qualification and outreach	✅ Live

Suge serves dual duty the primary Hermes style ops agent inside Paperclip, and the external-facing SugeBot on Telegram for real-time operational commands.

Infrastructure Layer

All services run on a Hetzner VPS (synthos-node-1) behind Cloudflare Tunnels with zero exposed ports.

Service	Role	URL
VPS / Portainer	Docker container management	Internal
Nginx Proxy Manager	Reverse proxy + SSL termination	Internal
Homepage	CedOps command center dashboard	`ops.synthossystems.com`
Synthos Website	Business-facing website	`synthossystems.com`
Ced's Home Lab	Homelab / Portfolio platform	`cedshomelab.com`

Traffic Flow:

Internet → Cloudflare Edge → Tunnel → Nginx Proxy Manager → Docker Services

Observability & NOC

Prometheus runs on the Proxmox homelab and scrapes the Hetzner VPS over a Tailscale private tunnel keeping metrics collection completely off the public internet.

Grafana visualizes everything in the live NOC dashboard.

Executive Health Panel

Synthos VPS Status UP/DOWN state with instant alerting
Public Services Up count of healthy endpoints (target: 5/5)
NOC Health Score composite platform health percentage
VPS Uptime continuous uptime tracking in days

VPS Resource Health

CPU Usage % synthos-node-1 CPU time series
Memory Utilization % real-time memory pressure
Disk Used % infrastructure capacity monitoring
Network Traffic RX/TX bandwidth graphs (30s refresh)

Public Service Availability

Tracked via Blackbox Exporter HTTP probes.

Service	Endpoint	Status
cedshomelab	cedshomelab.com	✅ UP
n8n	n8n.synthossystems.com	✅ UP
cedops	ops.synthossystems.com	✅ UP
paperclip	paperclip.synthossystems.com	✅ UP
synthos-website	synthossystems.com	✅ UP

Reliability Metrics

HTTP Status Codes per endpoint
Public Endpoint Response Time
SSL Expiry Days tracking
Service availability monitoring
SLO / SLA visibility
Incident timeline monitoring

Security Architecture

CedOps is designed with zero public infrastructure exposure.

Control	Implementation
No open ports	Cloudflare Tunnel handles all ingress
Private metrics pipeline	Prometheus → Tailscale → VPS; never public
SSL everywhere	NPM handles termination for all services
Container isolation	Docker network segmentation via Portainer
Secret management	No secrets in this repo handled via environment variables

Repository Structure

cedops-ai-infrastructure-noc/
│
├── docs/
│   ├── architecture/
│   ├── screenshots/
│   │   ├── dashboard_v1.png
│   │   ├── dashboard_v2.png
│   │   ├── dashboard_v3-overview.png
│   │   ├── dashboard_v3-incidents.png
│   │   └── dashboard_v3-slo.png
│   └── sops/
│
├── grafana/
│   ├── cedops-ai-infrastructure-noc-v1.json
│   ├── cedops-ai-infrastructure-noc-v2.json
│   └── cedops-sre-incident-response-v3.json
│
├── Prometheus/
│   ├── prometheus-example.yml
│   └── blackbox-targets-example.yml
│
├── diagrams/
│   └── cedops-architecture.mmd
│
└── README.md

Note: Prometheus and Blackbox configs are sanitized for public sharing. Production configs are managed privately and never committed to this repo.

Stack

Layer	Technology
Compute	Hetzner VPS (synthos-node-1)
Containers	Docker + Portainer
Reverse Proxy	Nginx Proxy Manager
DNS & Tunnels	Cloudflare
Private Network	Tailscale (Proxmox ↔ VPS metrics tunnel)
AI Orchestration	Paperclip
AI Gateway	OpenRouter
Automation	n8n
Ops Agent	SugeBot (Hermes / Telegram)
Metrics	Prometheus + Node Exporter + Blackbox Exporter
Visualization	Grafana
Virtualization	Proxmox VE

What's Built

V1 Dashboard — Foundational Observability

VPS UP/DOWN status panel
Public service availability monitoring
VPS resource health (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network)
HTTP status code monitoring
Endpoint response time tracking
SSL certificate monitoring
Cross-environment scraping via Tailscale

V2 Dashboard — Operational Reliability

SSL expiration tracking
Service reliability scoring
Public service availability metrics
Latency monitoring
Capacity awareness
Prometheus scrape visibility
Infrastructure health scoring

V3 Dashboard — SRE / Incident Response

Incident command overview
Service dependency monitoring
Alert timeline visibility
SLO/SLA monitoring
Error budget awareness
Incident response workflow
Infrastructure pressure detection
Reliability engineering metrics

Roadmap

V4 — AI-Assisted Operations

AI Incident Detection
Automated Remediation (n8n workflows triggered by alerts)
Telegram alert integration via SugeBot
Discord notifications
Paperclip agent telemetry dashboard
Agent execution analytics
Token spend / cost observability
Multi-environment monitoring (Homelab + VPS unified NOC)

Author

Chase Dumphord DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure Engineer | Platform Engineering | AI Infrastructure | Observability

Repo	Description
ceds-homelab	6 node Proxmox cluster + 12 node K3s + full homelab infrastructure
ced-k3s-homelab	12 node Raspberry Pi K3s cluster detail
ceds-observability-stack	Observability stack configs and dashboards
ceds-noc	Custom-built public NOC status page

README.md

🤖 CedOps AI Infrastructure Operations NOC