Real-Time Monitoring with Netdata
Published Jan. 25, 2026, 9:19 a.m. by wielandtech
I've been running a Kubernetes homelab for a while now, and while I've written about the setup before, I recently added something new that I'm pretty excited about: live cluster metrics on the homelab page.
What's New
The homelab page used to be pretty static--just a list of what's running and some hardware specs. Now it shows real-time metrics pulled directly from my cluster. CPU usage, memory, network traffic, disk I/O, temperatures, pod counts, deployment health, and uptime--all updating every second.
It's powered by Netdata agents running on each of my three nodes. I've been using Netdata alongside Prometheus and Grafana for a while, but I never exposed the data publicly before. The API is straightforward, and it gives me exactly what I need without the overhead of querying Prometheus for simple metrics.
The Metrics
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