Who wouldn't need a HAProxy in front of their Selenium instances at home? I guess nobody would NEED it but here we are.
I had my Zabbix Selenium tests running on my personal Mac. The trouble is/was that if I took my Mac away from home, or did take it offline for any reason, my tests broke. That. Is. Not. Good.
Zabbix 7.0 is fast. Not only it is fast for the new performance it gained underneath, but it also feels fast even on a Raspberry Pi 4.
Me being me, the following truly is an idea brought to you by Bad Idea Panda. Please, please do not try this at home. Or actually, DO try this at home, or any lab, but under any circumstances, DO NOT try this in production. Clear? Clear. Good, let's continue.
One of my colleagues still has not learned that if she goes for a vacation, she should not give me the exact name of the cruise ship she's going to. What do I do? Of course, I monitor the cruise ship location with Zabbix.
Because I can. This all started when she sent me a link to one of the ship tracking sites, like FlightRadar, but for maritime vessels. My response back was "I need to add this to my Zabbix", and here we are.
Zabbix 7.0 custom widgets game is on! The wonderful team at initMAX gave me access to Pro versions of their new Zabbix 7.0 widgets, so of course I'm now testing them in my own style. The first widget I got my hands on is Message of the Day.
A quick tip to possibly give you new ideas.
As Zabbix got the new fantastic Selenium-based synthetic web tests, you will now have a new component to monitor. How do you monitori Selenium? With Zabbix, of course! If you are inpatient, feel free to download my very bare bones example template.
Zabbix 7.0rc2 was released few days ago, and one of the most striking additions to it is the pre-built template for the new Selenium-based website monitoring. Of course I had to try it out.
Earlier this week, I immediately installed Zabbix 7.0beta3 when it came out. Back then I quickly tried out the new Honeycomb widget with some actual data.
As a regular follower of a weird gaming channel Let's Game It Out on YouTube, I couldn't resist thinking in that channel host Josh voice in my head saying "I wonder if there's a limit..." (to the number of elements you can have on Honeycomb widget).
My What's up, home? Zabbix is very small, with only 3172 active items.
Zabbix 7.0beta3 got released today, so of course I immediately updated my What's up, home? environment to run it. Like usual, the update process was seamless and fast, going through everything in about a minute with my Raspberry Pi 4.
As I updated Zabbix maybe ten minutes ago, these are very real-time impressions of the new version.
Recently I installed a Zabbix 7.0 proxy on a remote rental FreeBSD virtual server of mine. Why?
I do not envy my new proxy. If I would be a piece of software, I really would not want to be it. No, not because it would be challenging -- no, this one must be the most bored proxy of all time. It doesn't have too much to do, other than now it's testing this blog and few other websites instead of my home Raspberry Pi 4 doing that.
As my little monitoring project has outgrown what I at first thought it would be, some time ago I tightened some screws on its backup process -- or, actually, the restore part.