I deployed Zabbix 7.0 LTS (7.0.31) in the homelab this week. It went fine, which is the problem: install, add hosts, attach templates, done. Nothing to write about.
I have grown used to dirty power at this point. The grid fails, you wait fifteen minutes for it to stabilize, and then you power the server back on just for the power to go off again.
After dealing with a 15GB Traefik log file that quietly filled my server to 95% capacity last week, I had a thought: if I had a dashboard I could just glance at, I would have caught the storage spike days before it became an emergency.
There is a specific kind of hubris that builds up when your homelab runs smoothly for almost a year. You start trusting your own setup. You start thinking your architecture is actually solid.
At the end of my DeepDame writeup I mentioned something almost in passing: the backend was designed for an LGTM observability stack, and in production it ran on a single VM on a desktop in my room. Both halves of that are still true.
DeepDame is a real-time multiplayer checkers game. We built it across two semesters, five of us, at FST Settat. The repo is public. The APK works.
Every computer science student knows the lingering anxiety of executing a complex command on their primary workstation.
This blog exists for one primary reason: to serve as documentation for future-me. Debugging a broken server configuration months down the line when you have zero memory of what you originally did is an absolute nightmare.