Heh, Splunk is way overkill for what I need, but they have a free 10GB Dev license that you have to renew every 6 months, and building a custom COVID dashboard during the first few months of 2020 kept me sane. Here's my home/lab "prod":
Have you used splunk's free tier? It's easy to setup, 500mb/day ingest free, and it's pretty easy to use (easier than grafana imho.) If they're using it professionally then why not at home?