Monitoring

Hello there! Maurice Moss speaking. Today I’m quite excited to share something rather brilliant that I’ve been working on in between fixing printers and helping Roy turn things off and on again. It’s about making Prometheus and Netbox work together, which is almost as exciting as that time I mastered the entire Wood Sitting Down genre! What You’ll Need (Rather Important, Really) Netbox version 3.5.0 or newer (don’t try it with older versions, trust me - it’s like trying to run Windows Vista on a ZX Spectrum) Prometheus version 2.28.0+ (the plus is important, like remembering to wear your emergency socks) Node exporter or similar running on your target machines (I’ll explain why in a moment, like I had to explain to Jen why computers need fans) Why Would You Want This? (A Very Good Question!) Now, let me explain why this integration is absolutely brilliant. You see, normally with Prometheus, you’d have to manually declare all your targets in the configuration - writing them down like Roy writes down his lunch orders. But with this Netbox integration, it becomes dynamic! ...

Cloudflare Dashboard for Grafana: Because Monitoring Shouldn’t Cost More Than Your First Server Have you tried turning your metrics off and on again? No need - we’re about to set up a monitoring system that’s more reliable than Jen’s understanding of “The Internet”! The Problem with Enterprise Monitoring (Or: Why I Can’t Afford Another Black Box) You know what’s really frustrating? When you want to monitor your Cloudflare metrics but the enterprise license costs more than that time Roy accidentally bought a hundred mechanical keyboards thinking they were on sale (they weren’t). But fear not, fellow monitoring enthusiasts! We’re about to set up a dashboard that’s more impressive than Moss’s collection of vintage calculators, and it won’t cost you a single penny from the Reynholm Industries budget. ...

Hello there! Maurice Moss speaking. Today I’m quite excited to share something rather brilliant that I’ve been working on in between explaining to Jen what a standard deviation is. It’s about making your monitoring smarter than Roy’s morning coffee routine! What’s All This About Sigma Then? You know what’s really annoying? Getting woken up at 3 AM because your CPU usage hit 82% instead of the usual 80%. It’s like having to restart your computer every time the mouse moves slightly to the left. But fear not - I’ve discovered something absolutely revolutionary: the 3-sigma rule! ...

Hello there, Today I want to share some absolutely brilliant Prometheus tricks that I’ve discovered while managing our monitoring systems. These are the kind of tricks that would make Roy actually look up from his phone! 1. Reloading Prometheus Without Restarting (Like Magic!) You know what’s really annoying? Having to restart Prometheus every time you make a configuration change. It’s like having to reboot your computer just to change your desktop wallpaper (which, by the way, I do recommend sometimes, just to be safe). ...