I consider my dashboards, monitoring agents, and notification services an essential part of my home lab management stack, but if I had to pick one app I’d never ditch, it has to be Tailscale. Leaving the irony of using a service that relies on external servers aside, Tailscale is by far the easiest way to access my home lab from remote networks, and it’s the reason I was able to get a 3-2-1 backup workflow up and running for my NAS and PBS rigs.