Phase 3 — Live Deployment Notes

Overview

Phase 3 focused on moving Ced’s Observability Stack from documentation into a working live monitoring environment.

The goal was to verify that Prometheus could collect real metrics from Ced’s HomeLab infrastructure and that Grafana could visualize those metrics through live dashboards.

Environment

System	Purpose
Prometheus CT	Metrics collection
Grafana CT	Dashboard visualization
Blackbox Exporter	Service availability checks
Node Exporter	Host-level metrics
Unpoller / UniFi Exporter	UniFi network metrics
TrueNAS Graphite Exporter	TrueNAS metrics
Proxmox HA Cluster	Virtualization platform
12-node K3s Cluster	Kubernetes environment

Completed Work

Verified Prometheus target health
Repaired Blackbox Exporter configuration
Added custom Blackbox modules
Fixed HTTP probing for internal services
Verified Proxmox node exporter targets
Verified K3s node exporter targets
Installed UniFi exporter using Unpoller
Verified UniFi metrics on port 9130
Confirmed all Prometheus targets are UP
Verified Grafana dashboards are receiving live data

Services Confirmed Working

Component	Status
Prometheus	UP
Blackbox Exporter	UP
Proxmox Node Exporters	UP
K3s Node Exporters	UP
Windows Exporter	UP
TrueNAS Graphite Exporter	UP
UniFi Exporter / Unpoller	UP
Grafana Dashboards	Partially complete and receiving live data

Key Outcome

At the end of this phase, Ced’s Observability Stack successfully collected metrics from multiple platforms across the homelab environment.

This moved the project from a documentation-only repo into a real operating observability system.

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