A live AI operations platform running on Hetzner VPS — 8 autonomous agents orchestrated by Paperclip, monitored in real-time by a Prometheus + Grafana NOC dashboard. Built by a Digital Systems Engineer at GE Aerospace.

📸 NOC Dashboard

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 entire stack runs on a Hetzner VPS and is monitored continuously by 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 + Grafana — Full observability NOC monitoring 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       │  │ │
              │  │  └─────────────┘  └──────────────────┘  │ │
              │  └───────────────────────────────────────────┘ │
              │                                               │
              │  ┌───────────────────────────────────────┐   │
              │  │       Observability Stack              │   │
              │  │  Prometheus → Grafana NOC Dashboard    │   │
              │  │  Blackbox Exporter → Service Uptime    │   │
              │  │  Node Exporter → VPS Resource Health   │   │
              │  └───────────────────────────────────────┘   │
              └───────────────────────────────────────────────┘

🤖 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

The CedOps NOC dashboard monitors the entire VPS stack in real-time.

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
No public Prometheus	Metrics stay private; only Grafana is exposed
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
│   └── sops/
│
├── grafana/
│   └── cedops-ai-infrastructure-noc-v1.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
AI Orchestration	Paperclip
AI Gateway	OpenRouter
Automation	n8n
Ops Agent	SugeBot (Hermes / Telegram)
Metrics	Prometheus + Node Exporter + Blackbox Exporter
Visualization	Grafana

🔮 Roadmap

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

Platform Enhancements

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

🤖 CedOps — AI Infrastructure Operations NOC

A live AI operations platform running on Hetzner VPS — 8 autonomous agents orchestrated by Paperclip, monitored in real-time by a Prometheus + Grafana NOC dashboard. Built by a Digital Systems Engineer at GE Aerospace.

📸 NOC Dashboard

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

🧭 Overview

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 + Grafana — Full observability NOC monitoring 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       │  │ │
              │  │  └─────────────┘  └──────────────────┘  │ │
              │  └───────────────────────────────────────────┘ │
              │                                               │
              │  ┌───────────────────────────────────────┐   │
              │  │       Observability Stack              │   │
              │  │  Prometheus → Grafana NOC Dashboard    │   │
              │  │  Blackbox Exporter → Service Uptime    │   │
              │  │  Node Exporter → VPS Resource Health   │   │
              │  └───────────────────────────────────────┘   │
              └───────────────────────────────────────────────┘

🤖 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

The CedOps NOC dashboard monitors the entire VPS stack in real-time.

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
No public Prometheus	Metrics stay private; only Grafana is exposed
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
│   └── sops/
│
├── grafana/
│   └── cedops-ai-infrastructure-noc-v1.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
AI Orchestration	Paperclip
AI Gateway	OpenRouter
Automation	n8n
Ops Agent	SugeBot (Hermes / Telegram)
Metrics	Prometheus + Node Exporter + Blackbox Exporter
Visualization	Grafana

🔮 Roadmap

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

Platform Enhancements

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-noc	Custom-built public NOC dashboard
ced-k3s-homelab	12-nodeRaspberry Pi K3s cluster detail

README.md

🤖 CedOps — AI Infrastructure Operations NOC

📸 NOC Dashboard

🧭 Overview

🏗️ Architecture Overview

🤖 AI Agent Roster

🖥️ Infrastructure Layer

📊 Observability & NOC

Executive Health Panel

VPS Resource Health

Public Service Availability

Reliability Metrics

🔒 Security Architecture

📂 Repository Structure

🛠️ Stack

🔮 Roadmap

V2 Dashboard

Platform Enhancements

👤 Author

🔗 Related Repos

🤖 CedOps — AI Infrastructure Operations NOC

📸 NOC Dashboard

🧭 Overview

🏗️ Architecture Overview

🤖 AI Agent Roster

🖥️ Infrastructure Layer

📊 Observability & NOC

Executive Health Panel

VPS Resource Health

Public Service Availability

Reliability Metrics

🔒 Security Architecture

📂 Repository Structure

🛠️ Stack

🔮 Roadmap

V2 Dashboard

Platform Enhancements

👤 Author

🔗 Related Repos