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+# 🚀 Ced’s Observability Stack
+
+![Status](https://img.shields.io/badge/Status-Active%20Development-blue)
+![Platform](https://img.shields.io/badge/Platform-Proxmox%20%7C%20K3s-orange)
+![Monitoring](https://img.shields.io/badge/Stack-Prometheus%20%7C%20Grafana-red)
+![Alerting](https://img.shields.io/badge/Alerting-Alertmanager-yellow)
+![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-green)
+
+---
+
+## 🧠 Executive Summary
+
+**Ced’s Observability Stack** is a production-style monitoring, metrics, and alerting platform built to provide full visibility into a distributed hybrid infrastructure.
+
+It simulates real-world **SRE / Platform Engineering environments**, delivering:
+
+* 📊 Real-time infrastructure monitoring
+* ⚙️ Kubernetes observability (12-node K3s cluster)
+* 🖥️ Proxmox HA cluster visibility
+* 🌐 Service uptime + network health tracking
+* 🚨 Alerting pipelines (Alertmanager)
+* 📈 Operational dashboards (Grafana)
+
+> 🎯 **Goal:** Demonstrate enterprise-level observability practices across virtualization, Kubernetes, and self-hosted infrastructure.
+
+---
+
+## 🏗️ Environment Overview
+
+### Core Infrastructure
+
+| System                   | Purpose                            |
+| ------------------------ | ---------------------------------- |
+| 🖥️ Proxmox HA Cluster   | Virtualization & high availability |
+| ☸️ K3s Cluster (12-node) | Container orchestration            |
+| 💾 TrueNAS               | Storage services                   |
+| 🌐 Nginx Proxy Manager   | Reverse proxy & routing            |
+| ☁️ Cloudflare            | DNS, tunnels, external protection  |
+| 📊 Grafana               | Visualization dashboards           |
+| 📡 Prometheus            | Metrics collection                 |
+| 🚨 Alertmanager          | Alert routing                      |
+
+---
+
+## 📡 Monitored Systems
+
+| Target                  | Example Metrics                      |
+| ----------------------- | ------------------------------------ |
+| 🖥️ Proxmox Nodes       | CPU, memory, storage, VM + HA status |
+| ☸️ K3s Nodes            | Node readiness, resource usage       |
+| 📦 Kubernetes Workloads | Pods, deployments, restarts          |
+| 🌐 Network Services     | Uptime, latency, TCP checks          |
+| 💾 TrueNAS              | Storage + service availability       |
+| 🔀 Nginx Proxy Manager  | Reverse proxy health                 |
+| 📊 Dashy / NOC          | Dashboard availability               |
+| 🎬 Jellyfin             | Media service uptime                 |
+
+---
+
+## 🧩 Architecture
+
+```mermaid
+flowchart TD
+    A[Proxmox HA Cluster] --> P[Prometheus]
+    B[12-Node K3s Cluster] --> P
+    C[Node Exporters] --> P
+    D[Service Health Checks] --> P
+    E[Proxmox Exporter] --> P
+
+    P --> G[Grafana Dashboards]
+    P --> AM[Alertmanager]
+
+    AM --> N[Email / Discord / Slack Alerts]
+    G --> NOC[Ced's NOC Dashboard]
+```
+
+---
+
+## ⚙️ Core Components
+
+### 📡 Prometheus
+
+Collects metrics from:
+
+* Kubernetes endpoints
+* Node exporters
+* Proxmox exporter
+* Custom health scripts
+* Static service targets
+
+---
+
+### 📊 Grafana
+
+Provides dashboards for:
+
+* Cluster health
+* Resource utilization
+* Storage trends
+* Service uptime
+* Alert visibility
+
+---
+
+### 🚨 Alertmanager
+
+Handles alerting for:
+
+* Node failures
+* High CPU / memory
+* Service outages
+* Pod crash loops
+* Proxmox HA issues
+
+---
+
+## 📁 Repo Structure
+
+```
+ceds-observability-stack/
+├── architecture/
+├── prometheus/
+├── grafana/
+├── exporters/
+├── alerting/
+├── scripts/
+└── docs/
+```
+
+---
+
+## 📸 Dashboard Preview (Add Your Screenshots)
+
+> 📌 Replace with real screenshots from your Grafana dashboards
+
+* 🔹 Infrastructure Overview
+* 🔹 K3s Cluster Health
+* 🔹 Proxmox Cluster Status
+* 🔹 Service Uptime Dashboard
+
+---
+
+## 🚀 Deployment (High-Level)
+
+```bash
+# Clone repo
+git clone https://github.com/ced4568/ceds-observability-stack.git
+
+# Navigate to project
+cd ceds-observability-stack
+
+# Deploy Prometheus + exporters
+# (Add your actual deployment steps here)
+
+# Access Grafana
+http://<your-server-ip>:3000
+```
+
+---
+
+## 🎯 Project Roadmap
+
+### Phase 1 — Foundation
+
+* [x] Architecture design
+* [x] Repo structure
+* [ ] Prometheus base config
+* [ ] Grafana datasource
+
+### Phase 2 — Metrics Collection
+
+* [ ] Node exporter
+* [ ] K3s metrics
+* [ ] Proxmox exporter
+* [ ] Uptime checks
+
+### Phase 3 — Dashboards
+
+* [ ] Infrastructure dashboard
+* [ ] K3s dashboard
+* [ ] Proxmox dashboard
+* [ ] Service uptime dashboard
+
+### Phase 4 — Alerting
+
+* [ ] Alertmanager setup
+* [ ] Alert rules
+* [ ] Notification testing
+
+### Phase 5 — Portfolio Polish
+
+* [ ] Screenshots
+* [ ] Architecture diagrams
+* [ ] Setup guide
+* [ ] Troubleshooting docs
+
+---
+
+## 🧠 Skills Demonstrated
+
+* 📊 Infrastructure Monitoring
+* ☸️ Kubernetes Operations
+* 📡 Prometheus Configuration
+* 📈 Grafana Dashboarding
+* 🚨 Alert Engineering
+* 🐧 Linux Administration
+* 🖥️ Proxmox Virtualization
+* ⚙️ SRE Principles
+* 🏗️ Platform Engineering
+
+---
+
+## 🔗 Related Projects
+
+| Project           | Purpose                           |
+| ----------------- | --------------------------------- |
+| Ced’s HomeLab     | Full infrastructure ecosystem     |
+| Ced’s NOC         | Visualization + status dashboards |
+| Ced’s K3s HomeLab | Kubernetes architecture           |
+| Ced’s APRS iGate  | Networking + RF integration       |
+
+---
+
+## 📌 Status
+
+🟢 **Active Development**
+
+This project is continuously evolving as part of Ced’s HomeLab ecosystem and professional portfolio.
+
+---
+
+## 💼 Why This Project Matters
+
+This repository demonstrates the ability to:
+
+* Design and operate **distributed systems**
+* Implement **observability at scale**
+* Build **production-style monitoring stacks**
+* Apply **real-world SRE practices**
+
+> 🚀 Designed as a **portfolio-grade project** for career growth, promotion, and technical leadership visibility.