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Alerts that caught a dying USB enclosure

Set up fleet-wide log collection with Grafana Alloy, Loki, and Grafana, and periodic ZFS, SMART, and systemd health checks that send a Discord alert when a disk or service fails. The alerts caught silent checksum corruption from a faulty USB drive enclosure, traced to its UAS link and fixed with a kernel quirk and a cable replacement.

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