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What’s Up, Home? – Does your phone battery drain faster in summertime?
July 1, 2023
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Can you verify if your phone battery drains faster during summer compared to other seasons with Zabbix? Of course, you can!
What’s Up, Home? – 7 things to beware of if you monitor your home
June 16, 2023
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When reading this blog, you could easily think that everything is smooth sailing all the time. No. When you monitor your home IoT — or frankly, just USE your home IoT — you have plenty of small details to watch out for. I list them for you, so you don’t have to find them out […]
What’s Up, Home? – Can ChatGPT help set up monitoring a USB-connected printer with Zabbix?
June 9, 2023
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Can you monitor a USB-connected printer with Zabbix? Of course, you can! But can ChatGPT help set up the monitoring? Well… erm… maybe! By day, I am a Lead Site Reliability Engineer in a global cyber security company, Forcepoint. By night, I monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana and do some weird experiments with […]
What’s Up, Home? – Monitor your mobile data usage
May 26, 2023
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Can you monitor your mobile data usage with Zabbix? Of course, you can! By day, I am a Lead Site Reliability Engineer in a global cyber security company Forcepoint. By night, I monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana Labs and do some weird experiments with them. Welcome to my blog about this project.
What’s Up, Home? – Monitor your iPhone & Apple Watch with Zabbix
May 20, 2023
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I’m entering a whole new level of monitoring and “What’s up, home?” could now also be called “What’s up, me?”. Recently my colleague did hint to me about Home Assistant’s HomeKit Controller integration just to get my HomeKit-compatible Netatmo environmental monitoring device to get to return value back to Zabbix without my Siri kludge. One […]
What’s Up, Home? – Is it raining?
April 21, 2023
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Can you create a proper weather dashboard 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.
What’s Up, Home? – Let’s hit the road!
April 14, 2023
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Can you monitor how much you drive your car, even if your car wouldn’t have any way to report back to 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 […]
What’s Up, Home? – Monitor your website visitor rate
March 24, 2023
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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.
What’s Up, Home? – Raspberry Pi 4: goodbye or good buy for running Zabbix?
March 13, 2023
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Is Raspberry Pi 4 a goodbye or a good buy for running Zabbix? How is it performance-wise? Is it reliable? Here’s my nine-month review of it, with a splash of appliance/application performance monitoring.
What’s Up, Home? – Follow the news
March 3, 2023
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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.
Data Buffering in Zabbix Proxy
February 23, 2023
Community
One of the features of Zabbix proxy is that it can buffer the collected monitoring data if connectivity to Zabbix server is lost. In this post I will show it happening, using packet capture, or packet analysis.
What’s Up, Home? – Baby, Don’t Cry
February 3, 2023
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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.
