I’m Djamel Belaid, a systems administrator with 15+ years in IT across healthcare, SaaS and insurance: servers, monitoring, backup and recovery, and security. This site collects write-ups from my homelab: what I built, why, what broke, and what I learned. Everything here runs on hardware I own, with no ports opened to the internet beyond what a write-up says.
Writing
- A SIEM-lite for a home network in one morningOct 2026
Gateway security events, a Linux server's journal, Grafana Loki and email alerts, built in a few hours and proven with a harmless IDS test.