https://matijazezelj.github.io/packets-and-regrets/tags/storage/Recent content in Storage on Packets & RegretsHugoen-USSun, 19 Jul 2026 19:30:00 +0200https://matijazezelj.github.io/packets-and-regrets/posts/prometheus-on-nfs-healthy-until-it-wasnt/Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:30:00 +0200https://matijazezelj.github.io/packets-and-regrets/posts/prometheus-on-nfs-healthy-until-it-wasnt/<p>The monitoring page was green. The container was healthy. Queries worked.</p> <p>The storage design was still wrong.</p> <p>I had put the Prometheus time-series database on an NFS share. It was roomy, already mounted, and moved roughly 30 GiB away from a Docker VM whose local disk was tight. This seemed like a reasonable home-lab compromise right up to the moment the NAS stopped answering.</p> <p>Then Prometheus became the incident it was supposed to help explain.</p>