Sentinel

Sentinel is a self-hosted network and infrastructure monitoring platform designed for homelab and small-scale environments. It is intended to provide centralized monitoring, device discovery, alerting, and operational visibility in a lightweight, self-managed deployment.

Architecture

The architecture overview describes the intended system boundaries, service responsibilities, and data flow for the platform.

Documentation

• Architecture
• Deployment
• API
• Monitoring
• Troubleshooting
• Release Notes

Project Status

• ✅ Foundation Complete (v0.1)
• 🚧 Device Discovery (v0.2)
• ⬜ Monitoring
• ⬜ Alerting
• ⬜ Dashboard

Project Goals

Sentinel is designed to provide:

• Centralized infrastructure monitoring
• Device discovery and inventory awareness
• Real-time health and metric observation
• Actionable alerting and notification routing
• Lightweight deployment for constrained environments
• Extensibility for future integrations and modules
• Self-hosted architecture with operator control

Deployment Targets

Sentinel is intended to run on:

• Docker Compose
• Kubernetes (K3s)
• Raspberry Pi
• Linux servers

Repository Layout

sentinel/
├── docs/
├── infrastructure/
├── services/
├── configs/
├── scripts/
├── tests/
├── examples/
├── diagrams/
├── .github/
├── README.md
├── CHANGELOG.md
└── LICENSE

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

Author

Developed as a personal infrastructure monitoring project focused on self-hosted environments, container orchestration, and modern DevOps practices.