I monitor my home wtth Zabbix & Grafana and do some weird experiments with them. As these templates are just for fun at home and proof-of-concepts more than actual production quality, use these with care.
So far my blog series has 143 parts, out of which the first three are outright boring, and after that things got more interesting. Much more interesting, even. I have also kept multiple speeches about this project at Zabbix Summit events.
- Zabbix Summit 2022: What's up, home?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KiyhXil8UI
- Zabbix Summit 2023: What's up, home?: https://youtu.be/1Da5y4nbTgo?si=MWNWW6jR7ik2ujgJ
- Zabbix Summit 2023: What's up, me?: https://youtu.be/k-SIJgBT9oE?si=7wAQs5pRS2f_h8F_
- Zabbix Summit 2024: What's up, home? goes Generative AI: https://youtu.be/Nse7axHA4BU?t=2200
- Zabbix Summit 2025: Monitoring my nearby areas with Zabbix: https://youtu.be/bf7XRahrDiE?t=29063
- Introduction: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part1/
- Adding Grafana to the mix: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part2/
- Some findings after the first three weeks: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part3/
... ano now to the good stuff.
- Monitoring my facial cream use: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part4/
- Integrating Zabbix alerts with xscreensaver Star Wars scroller module: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part5/
- Smårgasbord of different stuff: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part6/
- Integrating Zabbix with Blender 3D software: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part7/
- Monitoring Philips OneBlade shaver by its audio frequemcy: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part8/
- Zabbix and an IoT remote: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part9/
- Reading air-conditioner data over MQTT: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part10/
- Take screenshots of your websites with Zabbix: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part11/
- Control/query Zabbix via Siri: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part12/
- Measure how many hours I'm listening to music per week: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part13/
- Get notified if your laptop webcam is on: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part14/
- Check if dog is in her bed: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part15/
- See if Roomba iRobot vacuum cleaner is moving: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part16/
- Capture the logs: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part17/
- Control the AC via MQTT via Zabbix UI: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part18/
- Make Zabbix control the AC automatically: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part19/
- Monitor electricity price: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part20/
- Check if video camera stream is alive: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part21/
- Use Zabbix as a countdown timer: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part22/
- BA-NA-NA! (Zabbix Summit 2022 visitors/viewers can relate to this): https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part23/
- Monitor Finland's total real-time electricity consumption: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part24/
- Don't forget to monitor your backups: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part25/
- Create fairy tales with Zabbix: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part26/
- Setup a Zabbix HA cluster at home: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part27/
- Monitor FlightGear flight simulator: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part28
- Detect a crying baby: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part29/
- Monitor Northern Lights: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part30/
- Welcome to my new home: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part30/
- Follow the news: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part30/
- My nine months experience with Raspberry Pi 4 and Zabbix: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part33
- Monitor your website visitor rate: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part34
- Can you debug baby's nocturnal waking?: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part35 -- 35a. Answer to part 35: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part35a
- How I'm doing NetFlow at home: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part36
- Welcome, Zabbix 6.4.0rc1! But possibly with a trivial bug...: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part37. -- fixed in 6.4.0rc2 https://whatsuphome.fi/news/20230222-negative-values-working
- Yes I have NetFlow at home, but what is it good for?: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part38
- Let's hit the road!: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part39
- Is it raining?: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part40
- Measuring CO2 with a device that would not want to integrate with Zabbix: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatuphome/part41
- Monitor iPhone and Apple Watch with Zabbix: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part42
- Monitor your mobile data usage: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part43
- Can ChatGPT help setting up monitoring an USB-connected printer?: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part44
- Zabbix the radio station: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part45
- Seven things to beware if you monitor your home: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part46
- Does your phone battery drain faster in summer time?: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part47
- How to secure your home monitoring: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part48
- Community Service Day to help small businesses: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part49
- Monitoring tripped fuses: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part50
- Monitor your ad-blocker: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part51
- Thank you for the Summit!: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part52
- Sorry, NixOS took my attention: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part53
- Upgrading MacBook Pro Retina mid-2012 to macOS Sonoma was a terrible idea: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part54
- How badly a limping memory card affects Raspberry Pi 4 performance?: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part55
- Track product prices with Zabbix: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part56
- Control your lights with Zabbix: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part57
- Time to start to use Zabbix 7.0 (at home): https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part58
- I created my first Zabbix 7.0 custom widget: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part59
- OS upgrade made my Raspberry Pi 4 literally cooler: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part60
- My Zabbix goes Generative AI: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part61
- Zabbix the alert AI journalist: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part62
- Zabbix the AI artist: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part63
- I, for one, welcome our new AI blogger overlords: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part63
- GPT4All is compatible with Zabbix 7.0 ChatGPT widget: https://whatsuphome.fi/node/90
- Add AI generates summaries to Zabbix or Grafana dashboards: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part66
- Track airport departures with Grafana's Infinity data source: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part67
- Global availability monitoring via a single home router: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part68
- Traceroute monitoring in my global Zabbix availability checks: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part69
- What's your name, again? Time for DNS monitoring!: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part70
- Zabbix 7.0beta1 --> beta2 update was painless: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part71
- Few dashboard panel ideas: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part72
- Use ProxySQL to help your database: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part73
- Back to basics - weird home monitoring: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part74
- How do you know if you have backups?: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part75
- I installed a Zabbix proxy for What's up, home: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part76
- Welcome, Zabbix 7.0beta3: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part77
- Bullying the poor new honeycomb widget: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part78
- Zabbix 7.0 takes website monitoring to new level: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part79
- Monitor your new Selenium: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part80
- Thanks, initMAX! Now texting new custom widgets: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part81
- Tracking a cruise ship: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part82
- Just a second: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part83
- Increase the availability of your Selenium with HAProxy: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part84
- InitMAX gaugeMAX Pro widget: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part85
- Thanks to Zabbix, a possible warning about a dying HDD: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part86
- initMAX itemMAX widget test: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part87
- Preparing my laptop for Zabbix Summit 2024: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part88
- ... but can you monitor Qubes OS with Zabbix?: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part89
- Thanks to monZphere, Zabbix 7.0 maintenance calendar just got an overhaul: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part90
- monZphere Zabbix 7.0 Kanban view for issues: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part91
- Hey monZphere AI assistant, create a host: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part92
- Using Zabbix API history.push, let's send currently playing song to Zabbix: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part93
- Using Zabbix-cli v3.x for Zabbix administration: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part94
- Monitor Zabbix Security Advisories 100% with Zabbix: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part95
- Track your typing speed with Zabbix: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part96
- Monitor your GitHub repos with Zabbix: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part97
- Describe the Zabbix dashboards and status for visually impaired: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part98
- I can haz Zabbix Cloud! https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part99
- What's next for the blog, Proxmox, Zabbix Summit 2024 recap: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part100
- Zabbix plays rock-paper-scissors: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part101
- New era for What's up, home? infra: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part102
- Netbox as home CMDB and integrated with Zabbix: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part103
- Track your PEF results with Zabbix: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part104
- Zabbix 7.2 is almost out with 7.2.0rc2: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part105
- Monitor your body temperature with Zabbix: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part106
- Give your Zabbix a computer vision and monitor bananas: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part107
- Test your CCTV with Zabbix Selenium tests: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part108
- Mind the maintenance window: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part109
- Combine zabbix-cli with local LLMs and more: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part110
- Some handy command-line tools, plus Apple GPU monitoring: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part111
- Monitor your Apple Silicon with Zabbix: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part112
- Monitor your Wi-Fi devices signal strength with Zabbix: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part113
- Return to monZphere: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part114
- monZphere continuation: Get your local browser-based AI guru: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part115
- Check your Raspberry Pi EEPROM version status with Zabbix: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part116
- Let Zabbix be your lucky lady for lottery numbers: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part117
- Puppy got a smart collar and Zabbix port has started: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part118
- Draw your Zabbix templates: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part119
- Keep track of Ollama's performance with Zabbix: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part120
- AIEE something munches my home router CPU, Zabbix to the rescue!: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part121
- Zabbix 7.4.0rc1 is out, of course I upgraded to it: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part122
- Use (iPhone) camera and Zabbix for distance measurement: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part123
- Make AI do your web tests just with natural language: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part124
- Alert if IoT hub miscalculates if we are home or not: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part125
- monZphere's Service Tree: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part126
- monZphere's Problem Analysis is awesome: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part127
- Track AI hallucinations with Zabbix: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part128
- Monitor hotel wifi quality with Zabbix: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part129
- Results of Zabbix Summit 2025 wifi connection quality: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part130
- Monitoring fuel prices with Zabbix: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part131
- Use Zabbix for e-mail notifications: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part132
- Some proper train-ing material: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part133
- Use Zabbix to observe when kid wakes up: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part134
- Cannot see that light: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part135
- Monitor Powerline home network with Zabbix: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part136
- See recurring incidents, MTRR and more: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part137
- Monitor OpenWrt with Zabbix: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part138
- Bad Apple but it's Zabbix: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part139
- Monitor Tailscale with Zabbix: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part140
- Monitor SD cards for their failures: https://whatsuphome.fi/blog/part-141-monitor-sd-cards-their-failure
- How to use your MacBook Pro trackpad and Zabbix as a scale: https://whatsuphome.fi/blog/part-142-how-use-your-macbook-pro-trackpad-and-zabbix-scale
- How I monitor my Toyota bz4x with Zabbix: https://whatsuphome.fi/blog/part-143-how-i-monitor-my-toyota-bz4x-zabbix
- Zabbix 8.0.0beta1 user interface improvements: https://whatsuphome.fi/blog/part-144-zabbix-800beta1-user-interface-improvements
- Catchier visualizations for Zabbix SLA: https://whatsuphome.fi/blog/part-145-catchier-visualization-zabbix-sla
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