Observability

Whatever each tool's default screen shows, and nothing layered on top.

Default UI (tars)Home Assistant

HA's stock cards. Pi temperature, UPS battery and load, every Zigbee sensor's battery, air quality from the Aranet4. Whatever HA puts on screen for free, with no custom dashboard layered on top.

Default UI (tars)AdGuard Home

Request volumes, top blocked domains, query latency, all on AdGuard's stock screen.

Default UI (tars)Zigbee2MQTT

The Z2M default screen, which gives me per-device link quality, last-seen timestamps, and the mesh map.

Default UI (tars)Omada Controller

ER605 link state, WAN failover events, and per-port throughput from the Omada controller.

Default UI (wednesday)Plex

Active streams, library scan status, and transcoding load on Plex's own dashboard.

Default UI (wednesday)Unraid

Unraid's stock dashboard, with array health, parity status, container state, and disk temperatures all on the same screen.

HA companion appMobile notifications

Door alerts, leak alerts, and anything else an automation has decided is worth a buzz. After-the-fact pings, which are about the cheapest possible substitute for actual observability.

MissingLong-term metrics

There's no Prometheus, InfluxDB, Grafana, or any other time-series store. Day-to-day this works. Year-over-year analysis would need a real metrics stack, and that one is genuinely overdue.