Finally got some time to put all the pieces together for collecting logs from across my Home Network and centralizing them for analysis, visualization. The general setup is the following: In my case, I chose the following setup: Here’s a visual diagram of the system with various components and how they connect to each other….
Month: November 2025
Unifi Teleport VPN + LAN Pihole DNS Server
If you use Unifi, it has a nifty zero-config VPN that allows you to both access and route traffic via your home network called Teleport. One issue I was running into though was that for some reason, my teleport client (iOS device in this case) didn’t get any DNS resolution ability. My setup is I…
Descending into rsyslog madness
I had setup rsyslog and alloy + loki to consolidate logs from all my servers in my home network for analysis, graphing and alerting. My goal was to: After some struggle, I was able to set this up with a combination of Dynafile and RSYSLOG_SyslogProtocol23Format in the loki forward format. It mostly worked – the…
Sonos and SMB Access Denied on Debian Bookworm
So I didn’t actually face this problem for almost a year even though the change had happened before then and the reason was my container for Sonos SMB library share wasn’t rebooted in that entire time and only did when a long enough power outage recently forced shutdown of my container host as the UPS…