Splunk: The power of regular expression
Let’s walk through how to extract meaningful fields like IP address, port, error level, and message content from a raw PHP warning log using regular expressions and Splunk’s rex...
What’s the Deal with That 32GB NVMe in My HP 880 Gaming PC?
I recently picked up an older HP 880 gaming desktop and noticed something odd: it came with a 32GB NVMe drive pre-installed, and no other storage device was present....
My First Visit to Harpers Ferry
This was my first visit to Harpers Ferry. Before coming, I tried to find some brief information about the area, but most of it wasn’t very helpful. So, I...
Splunk: Setting up Universal Forwarder
mkdir /opt/splunkforwarderuseradd -m splunk cd /opt/splunkforwarder wget -O “#8221;dpkg -i chown -R splunk:splunk /opt/splunkforwarder /opt/splunkforwarder/bin/splunk start cd etc/system/local/nano nano sudo systemctl restart sudo systemctl...
Simplifying Home Web Hosting with Cloudflare Zero Trust
In the past, hosting a website from your own home required a fair amount of technical know-how and came with significant security risks. Traditional setups involved several key steps:...
How to hide your powerscript windows showing
We can wrap it on a VBscript file Dim shell, command Set shell = CreateObject("") ' Specify your command here command = " -File c:/users/user01" ' Run the command...
Monitoring and Alerting Best Practices
1. Avoid Relying Solely on Email for Alerts Email is not a reliable alerting mechanism. Alerts can be delayed, filtered as spam, or ignored due to cluttered inboxes. From...
Telegraf is unable to collect docker metrics with error inputs.docker] Error in plugin: permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket at unix:///var/run/docker.sock:
If you got this error – Error in plugin: permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket at unix:///var/ It’s because / is only accessible...