Logging and Monitoring for Home Labs

mr.smashy
CodeX
Published in
6 min readJul 3, 2023

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Visibility in your environment is usually a big gap

Portion of a Logwatch email

Why are Logging and Monitoring Important?

It depends on your home lab use case. If your home lab is strictly a lab environment, and doesn’t touch your production (i.e., the stuff you need to make your network run), then logging and monitoring isn’t that important. If your home lab runs production…

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mr.smashy
CodeX
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