I started by trying to reduce Dynatrace problem noise in my homelab. I ended up discovering a failing disk with 11 bad sectors hiding beneath the SNMP flood, then automating the remediation before the data was gone.
How I replaced expensive Dynamic DNS services with a simple Azure Function that has run flawlessly for 5 years at just €1/month, with zero maintenance required.
A walkthrough of my self-hosted AI stack running on Proxmox: OpenWebUI, LiteLLM, Perplexica, SearXNG with Azure AI Foundry and Mistral as cloud backends.