A Step-by-Step Guide to Connecting Prometheus to pfSense via SNMP

Home, Bangkok, Thailand, 2021-02-07 17:28 +0700

#infrastructure #observability

The snmp_exporter is one of the trickier Prometheus components to set up because there’s a few moving parts involved in a full configuration and because of the need to run an extra tool to generate the snmp.yml config file from the ever-mysterious “MIBS”.

Manipulating Time Inside a Docker Container

Home, Bangkok, Thailand, 2020-08-27 21:48 +0700

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I had an edge case where I needed to be able to run a Docker container with the time 24 hours ahead of the real time for a single containerized build agent in my TeamCity build farm.

speedtest.net Against Multiple Servers in Prometheus / Grafana

Home, Bangkok, Thailand, 2020-08-22 09:51 +0700

#infrastructure #observability

Instability on my residential Internet connection this week prompted me to add some blackbox_exporter probes to my Prometheus/Grafana monitoring system so I could collect outage data to share with my ISP.

Connecting AWS CodeCommit in Multiple Accounts via SSH

Home, Bangkok, Thailand, 2020-08-12 10:12 +0700

#software_engineering #cloud

Over the past few months I’ve been using CodeCommit on projects that live in different AWS accounts but always using CodeCommit in the Singapore region. This means I need to connect through the same endpoint (git-codecommit.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com) but need to be able to specify different access keys depending on which account I am working with.