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 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-observability-stack	Observability stack configs and dashboards
ceds-noc	Custom-built public NOC status page

README.md

🤖 CedOps — AI Infrastructure Operations NOC