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By day, I monitor a global cyber security company for a living. By night, I monitor my home with Zabbix and Grafana. In this weekly blog series I'm sharing my weird experiments and new ideas how to utilise monitoring.

As on Easter we were not at home but doing Easter stuff, this week I have not implemented any major functionality to my home monitoring environment. But while I'm brewing new weird features, here's some bits and pieces of what I have learned about my home, and not shown here earlier.

Welcome to my weekly blog about how I monitor my home with Zabbix. Like Batman, I have a casual day job as a monitoring tech lead, and by night I tinker around with my home Zabbix. (Except that Batman does not do monitoring, or who knows)

Can you monitor the regular use of facial cream with Zabbix? Of course you can! Here's how. This same method could be very useful for monitoring if the elderly remember to take their meds or so.

(I am posting my weekly Friday blog about how I monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana a day early, as today I'll be working in the evening and have my morning free, and not so sure about tomorrow. Originally my plan was to write about something completely else, but this was too good to skip.)

In this weekly Friday blog series I am showing you how I am monitoring my home with Zabbix and Grafana. The whole project is my fun recently started hobby and is already beyond what I originally was aiming for.

New to series? Then please first read part 1 and part 2.

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Last week I wrote about how I monitor my home with Zabbix. This week, I am showing how I utilise Grafana to visualise the data collected by Zabbix and what are my plans to further improve all this.

For those of you who know me, this should not come as a surprise: I absolutely love Zabbix. It gives me the ultimate freedom to monitor whatever I need to monitor and is flexible enough to be able to monitor absolutely everything you can imagine. It's free, it's open source, and scales to whatever needs you might have.

What does a monitoring nerd who is a technical lead for monitoring in a global cyber security company do during his downtime? That's a silly question, mind you. Of course he monitors his home with a home Zabbix instance.