Haseeb ArshadHaseeb Arshad
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Server Command Center and Full-Stack Observability

A monitoring system that connects user-visible availability to Kubernetes health, storage, networking, hardware, and actionable alerting.

PrometheusGrafanaAlertmanagerBlackbox ExporterLokiUptime Kuma

151

command-center panels

31 days

metric retention

60s

public probes

The challenge

What the system needed to solve

Answer not only whether a service is down, but why: node pressure, storage saturation, DNS failure, certificate expiry, networking, or a bad rollout.

The build

Engineering decisions

01

Created a 151-panel Grafana command center covering node resources, thermals, disks, SMART data, storage, networking, Kubernetes, and incident-cause signals.

02

Combined Prometheus metrics with protocol-aware Blackbox probes, kube-state-metrics, exporters, and Uptime Kuma checks.

03

Designed actionable alerts with bounded queries, human-readable annotations, and runbook links.

04

Established a three-surface contract: every feature appears in Homepage, an independently generated Dashy catalog, and Grafana evidence.

Architecture

How the pieces connect

  1. 1Applications, nodes, and external routes
  2. 2Exporters and synthetic probes
  3. 3Prometheus
  4. 4Grafana and Alertmanager
  5. 5Telegram incident delivery

Results

What changed

  • Failures can be traced from a user-facing route to the responsible service, node, volume, or network dependency.
  • Dashboard and alert definitions are generated and contract-tested in Git.
  • Off-site checks provide independent evidence when the home network itself is unavailable.