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Part 30: Catching the Northern Lights

By whatsuphome | 11:21 AM EET, Sun December 11, 2022
Northern lights

Can you monitor Northern Lights with Zabbix? Of course you can! By day, I am a monitoring tech lead in 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 this project.

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Part 29: The baby is crying

By whatsuphome | 11:20 AM EET, Wed November 30, 2022
Baby cry detection

Can you detect a crying baby with Zabbix? Of course you can! By day, I am a monitoring tech lead in 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.

Time really flies. Our little baby girl at home is already about three and a half months old, and that shows in so many ways. If during her first month or two she cried quite a lot and quite easily due gassy stomach and whatnot, she nowadays mostly is a chill mini-human just observing the world.

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Part 28: Have a nice flight

By whatsuphome | 11:18 AM EET, Mon November 21, 2022
Flight Gear screenshot

Can you monitor FlightGear flight simulator with Zabbix? Of course you can! By day, I am a monitoring tech lead in 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 this project.

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Part 27: No more blackouts with Zabbix HA cluster

By whatsuphome | 11:17 AM EET, Wed November 16, 2022
Two Zabbix cubes

Can you have a Zabbix HA cluster at home? Of course you can! By day, I am a monitoring tech lead in 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 this project.

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Part 26: Zabbix the storyteller

By whatsuphome | 11:15 AM EET, Fri November 04, 2022
Fairy tale time!

Can you create fairy tales with Zabbix? Of course you can! By day, I am a monitoring technical lead in 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 this project.

We all know how Zabbix has the never-ending list of integrations for just about everything --need to integrate it with OpsGenie, PagerDuty, Teams, Slack or something else? No problem, there's probably a ready-made integration for that already.

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Part 25: Backups matter

By whatsuphome | 12:14 PM EEST, Fri October 28, 2022
BackupPC

Can you monitor your backups with Zabbix? Of course you can -- and you should! By day, I am a monitoring tech lead in 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 this project.

Some time ago Zabbix blog had an excellent read about how to backup Zabbix. While I'm next time coming up with something Completely Else in this blog, this week I wanted to remind you about backups.

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Part 24: Measure real-time power consumption

By whatsuphome | 12:12 PM EEST, Sun October 23, 2022
Zabbix cube

Can you monitor Finland's total real-time power consumption with Zabbix? Of course you can! By day, I am a monitoring tech lead in 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 this project.

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Part 23: BA-NA-NA!

By whatsuphome | 12:10 PM EEST, Thu October 13, 2022
BA-NA-NA!

Can you monitor a banana with Zabbix? Of course you can! By day, I am a monitoring tech lead in 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 this project.

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Part 22: The clock is ticking

By whatsuphome | 12:08 PM EEST, Wed September 28, 2022
Countdown

Can you use Zabbix as a countdown timer? Of course you can! By day, I am a monitoring technical lead in 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 this project.

Zabbix Summit 2022 is almost here. Finally we meet again in person after two years of virtual summits. And this year, I get to be a speaker. YAY!

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Part 21: Staring at the video stream

By whatsuphome | 12:06 PM EEST, Fri August 05, 2022
Smile!

Can you make sure your video streams are up with Zabbix? Of course you can! By day, I am a monitoring technical lead in a global cyber security company. By night, I monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana Labs and do some weird experiments with them. Welcome to my weekly blog about the project.

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  • Janne Pikkarainen from Finland 🇫🇮
  • Began with computers in 1986 with C64
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