Building and Monitoring a Home Lab

In this episode, Sara invites Madison Grubb, Senior SRE at ElastiFlow, and Brad Collins, Sales Engineer at ElastiFlow, to discuss the evolution and observability of home labs. They explore the iterations of their home lab setups—ranging from repurposed laptops to K3s—and the differing philosophies behind open-source solutions vs add-to-cart, plug-and-play.Madison and Brad share real-world stories of how network visibility uncovered hidden vulnerabilities, such as a "local" doorbell leaking data and a 3D printer generating excessive DNS noise and how they remediated. ResourcesBlog | Building, Scaling, and Monitoring a Home LabMonitor your home lab for freeWatch on YouTube