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Uptime Kuma on a Pi which pings the BI box, cameras, NVR, network gear, etc as well as monitoring the service ports to check services are responding. Alerts are sent via Telegram
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External access VPN: The family's main interface to BI is through the mobile app. When away from home we use a Wireguard VPN to access BI. It runs on an old Pi 3. I’ve found WG great for a few reasons:
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WorkOS
The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
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Windows-exporter => InfluxDB => Grafana which displays on a 10” tablet in the lounge. I know what the normal CPU, RAM, Disk write number should be so it’s easy to see everything is good at a glance. Grafana dashboard.
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BI machine and NVR report to CheckMK Raw host so it's easy to see historic stats.