Those of you who have read my blog for long enough might remember how I showed how to monitor the color of a banana. This, of course, motivated by Steve Destivelle the Banana Guy. My example back then was a quick hack to just show the potential and compared to what's possible today with the inevitable march of LLMs, it was very primitive.
I know, outside of the scope of this blog, but worth mentioning here for the future generations to marvel.
Thank you, Forcepoint and my dear colleagues! I'm just doing my work and being the punny myself.
Last week I got to experience the fun little thing that is pneumonia. It was annoying but luckily not TOO bad. Nevertheless, nearly +39C for some time plus some side effects of that made me sleep a lot. Or, if not sleeping, at least staying in my bed.
What does a monitoring nerd do while trying to heal? Thinks how to monitor his fever, of course.
Some time ago Metricio interviewed me for their blog, and here is the transcript of the interview on their blog. :)
Zabbix 7.2 is almost out with its 7.2.0rc2 release so I today updated my dear What's up, home? environment to it. What possibly could go wrong with a release candidate version?
I've had a very long-running on-off asthma-stylish cough, recently getting worse than ever. No worries, my dear readers, I can live normal life, I go to work, live with my family, do all that, everything is well apart from annoyance.
Anyway, fpr debugging me, the doctors have taken all kinds of tests from me and the latest one is that I'll be doing PEF tests for two weeks twice a day. In PEF tests, you blow to a meter which then tells how many liters per minute you can huff and puff. For tracking the results, they gave me a paper. PAPER. PAPER! That blows.
Welcome to another episode of What's up, home? weirdness. Who wouldn't have their own Netbox at home and who wouldn't think of it as home CMDB? I just started experimenting with that. For those who do not know, CMDB -- or Configuration Management Database -- is the source of truth for your inventory of stuff. In data centers, your servers, their cables, their everything, telling in which data center and which rack they are.
Do you know the feeling when you planned to do just some little changes and few days later you realize you might have gone a bit overkill with your setup? I do now. No new hardware here at What's up, home dungeon, but my Linux laptop has now a bit different setup and I'm probably not even done yet. What I'm doing is that I'm exploring the treasures and gems brought us to by the fantastic world of open-source. Thank you, everybody who makes this possible!
Zabbix 7.0 is so fast that in a small environment such as What's up, home? it gets bored. Very bored.
What does Zabbix do when it gets bored? It uses its new Selenium-based Browser item type and plays some Rock-Paper-Scissors against this blog site.
It's been one hundred blog posts already! Wow! To celebrate that, this blog post will be covering some of the past, the present, and the future.
This year, Zabbix Summit 2024 was probably the best ever personally. It seemed that everybody knew me, and I got very good contacts from several companies and met great new people. The speaks, the parties, the food, the people, Riga, everything just excellent. Thank you!
Here's my What's up, home? goes Generative AI speech from the summit:
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