airgapped

Jellyfin exporter has all kind of metrics but the ones that interest me most are active users and media played. I have a nice panel that shows who played what, when and for how long. Would also highly recommend monitoring your torrent server, that has produced all kinds of useful and interesting (to me!) metrics.

That is showing just CPU power draw. I have a minipc that sips 2W idle according to onboard stats but wall meter shows 18W.

Other than the items you mentioned I have dashboards for:

• SSH/SMTP honeypot
• Jellyfin
• Pihole
• Torrents
• Tasmota (smart plugs)

I picked up programming using “C for Dummies” book at age 13 and absolutely fell in love with developing/tinkering. My school didn’t offer any IT lessons (yes I am old) so I couldn’t wait until I got to a college that offered CS classes. Once I started these classes, I started absolutely hating development, to the point I dropped the course six months in and ferverently avoided anything IT related for the next decade. Eventually I found my way back to it via homelabbing for my own projects through organic need.

The point of my long winded anecdote: a formal education may actually hinder your IT learning more than it helps. The best teacher I found was in fact necessity or passion. Formal education will also teach you next to nothing about skills needed for selfhosting.