Spaceballs: The Log Triage — How I Nearly Melted an Intel NUC with Vector, n8n, and Naive AI Dreams

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:18:00 +0200

In Part 1 of our Lazy SRE Automation series, we painted a glorious, utopian vision: a world where Vector listens to container logs, n8n orchestrates workflows, Ollama writes code fixes, and you sleep soundly while Pull Requests open themselves.

It sounded majestic on paper.

Then reality hit. And by “reality,” I mean my innocent little Intel NUC screaming in acoustic agony as its cooling fan spun at 140,000 RPM while melting into a pool of radioactive silicon.

Welcome to Spaceballs: The Log Triage. Here is everything I learned after accidentally turning my homelab into a self-inflicted Distributed Denial of Service attack.

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Spaceballs: The Log Triage — How I Nearly Melted an Intel NUC with Vector, n8n, and Naive AI Dreams