That's the advantage of a homelab environment - the whole monolith/microservice complexity & technical debt thing just doesn't matter in that context. Anything interesting is fair game.
One more more "Why" motivation to add: Portability. I can stick it on my desktop (minikube), my homelab cluster, or a DIY cloud cluster or CP. Feels a bit like docker in that sense - common lowest denominator to build against.
> If anyone knows of a CLI that would give me that level of information, please leave a comment.
k9s tool is much better. Takes a bit of getting used to since it has the whole ssh old school vibe but its 10x more useful that the official dash.
>prometheus/alertmanager: I don't have this setup
I've found Promtail daemonset connected to Loki/Grafana to be good. Especially if you stick ever deployment into it's own namespace, since you can then use that as label in Grafana/Loki. Had a couple issues that I could only track down once I had external logging.
https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/clients/promtail/instal...
Another neat trick is using Kompose to translate docker-compose to yaml. Helm works too, but I find them a little opaque.