Python: Timeout a function
Sometimes we have a function running too long more than we expect, we want to kill it after a certain time. For example, we have a function connecting to...
Continuous ping monitoring
We have a monitoring system to check network devices, sometimes we got an alert saying the remote device is down. We check the remote device and it’s working fine....
Telegraf – additional tags for your inputs
I have this scenario, i would like to monitor all our Microsoft sql databases in our setup using Telegraf. I dont want to install telegraf agent in every server,...
Redhat – Checking default gateway
:~$ route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface UG 0 0 0 eth1 U 1 0 ...
How to send your syslog message to InfluxDB with Telegraf
InfluxDB not only support metrics, it also can store your syslog. I have played around with metrics, now I’d like to send my log to InfluxDB. Here is how...
InfluxDB Relay – Experience
I started to build InfluxDB for a high availability InfluxDB architecture. I will share all my experience with the InfluxDB Relay in this post. This is based on InfluxDB...
MacOS: Problem installing Command Line Tools for Catalina
I’m running Catalina and today i tried to install “brew”. During the installation, it required x-code-select, i installed it and got this error “Can’t install the software because...
InfluxDB: Enterprise vs Opensource
I spent my weekend to setup an InfluxDB infrastructure. My goal is to have a high availability infrastructure. If you do some readings, you will see that the high...
Ubuntu: my cronjob in /etc/cron.d is not running
If your cron job is not running as expected check the following: – permission for this file should be 600 – one one can read except root – check...