Building a Homelab SIEM with Loki — Reading My Logs Instead of Hoping
I had dashboards showing me numbers — CPU, memory, network throughput. What I didn’t have was any way to answer “what actually happened?” When did someone try to log in? What did the firewall block? Those answers live in logs, and my logs were scattered across machines, unread. This post is how I pulled them into one searchable place. That’s a SIEM — Security Information and Event Management — and you can build a simple one at home. ...