# The dashboard that finally told me what my rack was doing

DevFeed: [The dashboard that finally told me what my rack was doing](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-dashboard-that-finally-told-me-what-my-rack-was-doing-10759.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shedstack.dev/posts/the-dashboard-that-told-me.html>)

Author: Shed Stack

Published: 2026-08-06T15:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Shed Stack](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shed-stack.md>)

Topics: [Grafana](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/grafana.md>), [Homelab](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/homelab.md>), [Monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monitoring.md>), [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dashboards.md>), [Hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hardware.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/telemetry.md>), [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>)

Tags: [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [grafana](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/grafana.md>), [hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hardware.md>), [homelab](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/homelab.md>), [metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/metrics.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [self-hosted](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/self-hosted.md>), [storage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/storage.md>)

## AI overview

A personal account of building a self-hosted homelab monitoring stack with Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana. The setup detected a failing disk early enough to replace it without data loss, and the article recommends starting with a small set of actionable metrics rather than monitoring everything.

## Source excerpt

Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana on the homelab. It caught a dying disk within a week.