Building an LLM-Powered Log Triage Pipeline with Python and DeepSeek-R1

Introduction I have Prometheus and Grafana monitoring my homelab. I have Alertmanager sending Discord notifications when a node goes down. But there was a gap in the middle that kept bugging me. Prometheus tells me that something is wrong. CPU is high. A container restarted. A scrape target is unreachable. What it does not tell me is why . For that, you need to read the logs. And reading Docker logs across multiple containers, multiple times a day, is the kind of task that feels productive for a