The OpenTelemetry Collector: My Homelab Multitool

Monitoring a homelab shouldn&rsquo;t require a PhD in observability pipelines. Yet somehow, we all end up with a rat&rsquo;s nest of exporters, agents, and databases that barely talk to each other. After years of fighting this complexity, I&rsquo;ve landed on the OpenTelemetry Collector as the single tool that ties everything together. &#xA; ClickHouse is the other piece of the puzzle here.…