homelab-journey
Silent Failures: Monitoring Stateful Services After Restarts
Garage's node ID reverted, Longhorn backups failed silently, and OpenBao turned out to have the same unmonitored risk — three alerts, two reactive and one proactive.
Garage
homelab-journey
Fixing a Postgres Backup Failure: Region Mismatch and a Missing NAS Copy
A LogQL finding led to a one-line AWS CLI region fix for postgres housekeeping — and uncovered a second gap: backups never synced to the NAS.
homelab-journey
Metrics Server on Talos: The Reboot That Broke Garage
Empty Longhorn panels led to metrics-server, a Talos cert quirk, a reboot that broke Garage, and 16 silent hours of failed backups.