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

V2 — Current

V1

Live: All 5 public services reporting UP · NOC Health Score 100% · VPS Disk 27% · Prometheus scraping every 30s

🧭 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 % — current at 27%
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 (all returning 200)
Public Endpoint Response Time (ms) — time series graph
SSL Expiry Days — tracked per certificate with warning thresholds

🔒 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
│   └── sops/
│
├── grafana/
│   ├── cedops-ai-infrastructure-noc-v1.json
│   └── cedops-ai-infrastructure-noc-v2.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 via environment variables and are 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 (Proxmox) + Node Exporter + Blackbox Exporter
Visualization	Grafana
Virtualization	Proxmox VE (homelab, hosts Prometheus + Grafana)

✅ What's Built

V1 Dashboard

VPS UP/DOWN status panel
Public service availability (5 endpoints via Blackbox Exporter)
VPS resource health (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network)
HTTP status codes per endpoint
Public endpoint response times
SSL certificate expiry tracking
Cross-environment scraping via Tailscale (Proxmox → Hetzner VPS)

V2 Dashboard

Agent activity metrics (Paperclip runs, success rate, token spend)
SugeBot command log panel
Per-agent health monitoring
n8n workflow execution tracking
Telegram alert integration via SugeBot

🔮 Roadmap

AI Incident Detection — anomaly-triggered agent escalation
Automated Remediation — n8n workflows triggered by Prometheus alerts
Multi-environment monitoring (homelab + VPS unified NOC)
Discord alert channel

👤 Author

Chase Dumphord Digital Systems 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-noc	Custom-built public NOC status page

README.md

🤖 CedOps — AI Infrastructure Operations NOC