prometheus

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

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

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

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.