Battle-tested tutorials extracted from live call centers, AI voice agents, and monitoring infrastructure across multiple data centers. Complete, copy-paste-ready code from systems handling thousands of calls per day.
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If you run a VoIP operation — a call center, a telecom platform, or even a handful of Asterisk/FreePBX servers — you know the pain. A SIP trunk silently drops. Packet loss creeps up at 2 AM. An agent gets stuck in a zombie conference for three hours. Disk fills up with recordings and nobody notices until calls start failing.
The standard approach is to SSH into each server, run sip show peers, grep some logs, and hope you catch problems before your customers do. That does not scale past two servers.
This tutorial walks you through building a centralized VoIP monitoring stack that runs on a single Docker host and monitors any number of remote VoIP servers. It is based on a production system that monitors a multi-server ViciDial call center fleet across four data centers and seven SIP providers. Every configuration file in this tutorial comes from that real deployment, sanitized and annotated.
When you finish this tutorial, you will have a single Docker Compose stack exposing these services:
| Service | Port | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Grafana | :3000 | Unified dashboards — metrics, logs, SIP data, all in one UI |
| Prometheus | :9090 | Time-series metrics database (30-day retention) |
| Loki | :3100 | Log aggregation engine (7-day retention) |
| Homer | :9080 | SIP capture and search (7-day retention) |
| Smokeping | :8081 | Network latency graphs with historical baselines |
| Blackbox Exporter | (internal) | ICMP pings, TCP SIP port checks, HTTP probes |
| PostgreSQL | (internal) | Backend database for Homer SIP data |
On each remote VoIP server, you will install four lightweight agents that ship data back to the central stack...
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