Frank af05c890fd observability: LLM alerting rules, evaluated but not yet delivered
The scraped metrics have no rules over them, so every graph was read after the
fact by a human. This adds shared/prometheus/rules/llm-fleet.yml, loaded via
rule_files and installed by the same copier that ships prometheus.yml (a rule
file nothing loads evaluates nothing, and Prometheus reports no error for it):

  LlmKvPoolSaturated      kv pool > 90% for 10m — the 122,636-token wall
  LlmRequestsQueueing     waiting > 0 for 10m — MAXSEQS=4 reached
  LlmPrefixCacheCollapse  reuse < 20% for 15m with traffic — the thrash signature
  LlmEndpointDown         scrape target down 2m — both replicas gone
  LlmLatencyHigh          p95 end-to-end > 60s for 10m — what an operator feels
  job:llm_prefix_cache_reuse:rate5m — recording rule shared by the alert and the
                          dashboard, so the two cannot drift

Every threshold is tied to something measured on this fleet, not to a guess,
and the file says plainly at the top that **nothing is notified**: there is no
Alertmanager here, so a firing alert reaches Prometheus' /alerts page, the
ALERTS metric and the dashboard panel added alongside it — and nowhere else.
Choosing how Frank actually gets paged is his call, not a missing config line.

Seam covers the silent failure mode: rules exist, the config references the
directory, the deployer installs it, and the dashboard graphs ALERTS.
2026-09-16 06:45:03 -07:00

Server App Configs

The single repository for the two homelab servers: the Podman container stacks and the LLM inference fleet. One repo, one checkout per host, one deploy script.

2026-08-22: the former vllmScripts repository (LLM fleet) is merged into this repo with its full git history. See AGENTS.md for the merge note.

Targets

Host User IP Podman stack LLM service LLM port
dankserver dank 192.168.0.235 media and library frank-medium (ROCmFPX llama.cpp, Qwen3.8-27B AGENT) 7770
dankclaw dank 192.168.0.143 AI, search, development, observability frank-large (CIRU ROCmFPX, Qwen3.8-27B) 7770

Active Services

Service Host Hostname Port
RomM dankserver romm.dankserver.local 8085
Copyparty dankserver files.dankserver.local 3923
Calibre-Web dankserver books.dankserver.local 8083
frank-medium dankserver — (bare endpoint) 7770
SearXNG dankclaw search.dankclaw.local 8081
ComfyUI dankclaw comfyui.dankclaw.local 8188
OpenWebUI dankclaw chat.dankclaw.local 3000
Hermes dankclaw hermes.dankclaw.local 8090
Gitea dankclaw gitea.dankclaw.local 3001
Grafana dankclaw grafana.dankclaw.local 3002
Prometheus dankclaw prometheus.dankclaw.local 9090
frank-large dankclaw — (bare endpoint) 7770

Structure

  • dankserver/ — compose.yaml + Caddyfile + .env.example for the Dankserver stack
  • dankclaw/ — compose.yaml + Caddyfile + .env.example for the Dankclaw stack
  • shared/ — homepage, prometheus config, deploy helpers
  • scripts/ — deploy.sh and deploy-remote.sh (service-scoped deployment), the planner, LLM serve scripts, systemd units, env tunables, and bench harnesses
  • old/ — retired PP/NPU-era LLM scripts (reference only)
  • serverAppConfigs-docs/ — project knowledge base (Obsidian vault, wikilinks). serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/ is the LLM fleet
  • tests/ — bats test suite (see Testing Policy)

Deployment

See serverAppConfigs-docs/Architecture/Deployment Flow.md and serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/deployment.md. Run ./scripts/deploy.sh <dankclaw|dankserver> after committing changes. It plans and deploys only the changed services. Use --service NAME for an explicit single-service retry; inference is restarted only when its own files (or the shared chat template) changed.

Knowledge Base

The serverAppConfigs-docs/ directory is an Obsidian vault. Start at serverAppConfigs-docs/index.md. The LLM fleet knowledge base lives at serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/index.md.

Testing

Run ./tests/run.sh before every push. See serverAppConfigs-docs/Architecture/Testing Policy.md.

S
Description
Podman deployment configs for Dankserver and Dankclaw
Readme
8.5 MiB
Languages
Shell 60.5%
Python 21%
HTML 6.2%
Jinja 3.9%
C++ 3.9%
Other 4.5%