Informatique

How I use graphite_exporter to collect metrics from TrueNAS with Prometheus, and Rsyslog and Promtail to send logs to Loki.

I recently added Syncthing to my file management workflow on my phone, and it complements Nextcloud really well.

How I use Rsyslog and Promtail to forward logs from network appliances to Loki.

My simple virtualisation system based on Ubuntu, libvirt, libguestfs and shell scripts.

Using the JSON API data source, I’m able to visualize my website traffic in a Grafana dashboard.

I want to use my TrueNAS box as an iSCSI storage backend for my virtual machines managed by libvirt. Here is how to set this up.

I became a Solutions Architect a year ago and I’m learning so much! Let me tell you how I avoided drowning in a shower of projects.

In this story, I share my process and difficulties with figuring out what I wanted to do with my life. Then I share all the strategies used and actions I took to teach myself, get help, get hired and grow as a Systems Administrator.

…and transparent links are better than opaque links.

Let me tell you the story of how I used Grafana while troubleshooting random reboots of my pfSense router.

How-to guide for setting up the Nextcloud client for Android.

How I organize my writing workflow using Hugo, Wowchemy, Git, Spacemacs and Firefox.

I wrote a Python script to count Firefox tabs and feed the metrics through the textfile collector.

Free associations on automation, observability, the brain and the world.

We live and work in the web browser. This is how I manage 100s of Firefox tabs.

I describe the infrastructure that supports our family self-hosted Nextcloud service.

Previous blog engine I was using Pelican for content management and templating engine. I wrote my own basic theme based on the SemanticUI framework. Screenshots The landing page. Nice clean simple design, but too much attention on the picture, not enough useful information for a landing page.

Using regexes to pass multiple parameters to each blackbox target.

Trigger an alert from a cronjob daily at noon local time as a canary alert for the monitoring of the monitoring system itself.

How to use certbot –manual to obtain and renew Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates on an Nginx or HAProxy load balancer.