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As I now have GPT4All perfectly suitable for writing fascinating stories about everything, why not to utilize it even more? Please welcome the new spin-off website, What's up, home? Generative AI Edition. A cronjob running on my What's up, home? environment will run itself every morning 7am Finnish time, generate a fresh new story based on active Zabbix alerts, and post it to the new website over Drupal API.

Since I will have some real use for Zabbix 7.0 when it comes out, I figured out that maybe it's time to switch my What's up, home? main instance to run on Zabbix 7.0beta1. Actually, I first upgraded to Zabbix 7.0alpha9 early yesterday, but then 7.0beta1 got released later in the evening before I had time to play around with alpha9. 

Anyway, now my Raspberry Pi 4 is running the latest-and-greatest version of Zabbix. A possible bumpy ride ahead, but I'm ready!

This is the difference in I/O wait times after I replaced the faulty Raspberry Pi memory card to brand new one.

So, from about 8-9 seconds AVERAGES to back almost non-existent! Yay!

AIEEEE!!! Potential hiccups ahead for my master server, as today I started to observe these in dmesg output after rebooted my Raspberry Pi.

Just.a quick note: as the Drupal version (9.x) this site was running on is not supported anymore, I migrated the site to Drupal 10.x. As the theme I was using with Drupal 9.x is not compatible with 10.x, the site is for now using the Drupal 10 default theme. That actually looks quite OK, so I'll get back to theming whenever I have time.

Since the Zabbix Summit 2023 page seems to list me already, I'll go public here, too: I will again be a speaker at the Zabbix Summit in 2023. See you in Riga in October!

I've been a bit silent here lately. But don't you worry, I'm not getting bored or abandoning this blog. Instead I got a motivation to improve my Zabbix <--> Blender 3D integration from last year. Here's a quick teaser on how it looks like.

I've been busy as a bee, so I've been unable to post new content here... anyway can you imagine it's been more than one year of What's up, home? already?! Time flies! 

To celebrate that, here's a proof of how bad I am still with remembering to apply my facial cream. Check out this SLA report for some recent weeks. I still get alerted about it and still after an alert it can go for long enough that my SLA can be really bad. Uh oh. Maybe on one day I'll learn.

My colleague hinted me about Home Assistant's HomeKit Controller integration for monitoring my Netatmo environmental sensor. It works! I mean, I got it to show on my Home Assistant already.

Zabbix 6.4.0 has landed! I've been running the RC versions for some time now and everything's been stable, so go and update your Zabbix (with the usual cautionary steps, of course). Of course, my home Zabbix now runs 6.4.0, too.