whatsuphome

This morning my wife took something out of the freezer and for some reason the door was not properly closed. Unlike back in March 2022 during which a similar incident (but with an accidental power button push) started this while project, today nothing bad happened. We got alerts as soon as the freezer got too warm, and closing the door did resolve the issue in 15 minutes. Thanks, Zabbix!

Can you debug your baby's unreliable nocturnal sleeping cycle with Zabbix? Of course you can! Or, as babies can be very random, maybe "possibly". Additionally, can you monitor when your baby goes to her night sleep with Zabbix? Of course you can! By day, I am a lead site reliability engineer in a global cybersecurity company. By night, I monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana and do some weird experiments with them.

Not really any new functionality in this post, but utilising the data my Zabbix is collecting. 

Can you monitor your website visitor rate with Zabbix? Of course you can! By day, I am a lead site reliability engineer in a global cyber security company. By night, I monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana and do some weird experiments with them.

I have not deserted my project, not at all. Our about 5 1/2 months old baby girl has decided to start waking up about at the same time with me, so my usual time window for updating this blog is gone for now. The blog will return as soon as possible (I'm almost done with the next update anyway).

Is Raspberry Pi 4 a goodbye or good buy for running Zabbix? How is it performance-wise? Is it reliable? Here's my nine months review of it, with a splash of appliance/application performance monitoring.

After in about April 2022 when it became clear that I am going to continue my home monitoring project, I bought a Raspberry Pi 4 to run the show. Here's my opinion how well it is suited for running Zabbix.

Can you follow the news with Zabbix? Of course you can! By day, I am a lead site reliability engineer at a global cyber security company. By night, I monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana and do some weird experiments with them. Welcome to my blog about the project.

(I'll be posting this kind of short, almost tweet-like news to this blog, as here it feels natural and comfortable, on LinkedIn I would feel like a spammer)

I got Cozify write operations working! Some time around Christmas I realised that underneath the unofficial Cozify API Python library does support write operations after all, it's just that its documentation does not reflect that.

New year comes with new ideas, so I decided to move my blog from LinkedIn to a dedicated website, whatsuphome.fi. This week I'll write about the rationale of my move.

LinkedIn articles did serve my blogging purposes quite well. However, now that my home monitoring thing has become a real thing, it was time to setup a real domain for the blog. 

But why?

A real domain and a dedicated content management system do become with apparent benefits.