A Step-by-Step Guide to Connecting Prometheus to pfSense via SNMP
2021-02-07
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...
Manipulating Time Inside a Docker Container
2020-08-27
Software engineering
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...
speedtest.net Against Multiple Servers in Prometheus / Grafana
2020-08-22
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...
Connecting AWS CodeCommit in Multiple Accounts via SSH
2020-08-12
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...
WAN Failover to 4G with pfSense
2020-08-07
InfrastructureI’m always trying to improve my home infrastructure and make it more robust. In February and March I made improvements around monitoring and automatically reacting to power events.
Static Site with S3 and CloudFront
2020-08-02
Infrastructure CloudWhen I first replatformed this site to being a Jekyll static blog served from S3 I just used simple S3 static site serving as opposed to front-ending the S3 bucket...
3D Printed Fridge Magnet
2020-05-24
3dprinting
Our niece Nong Peak stayed over this weekend and this morning we made a cute cat fridge magnet which turned out pretty nicely:
Rode M5 Microphone X-Y Stereo Rig
2020-05-09
3dprinting
Field recording
This was a project to design and print a simple and light-weight rig for mounting my stereo matched pair of Rode M5 condenser microphones in X-Y co-incident arrangement for stereo...
USB Hub Under-Desk Mount
2020-04-18
3dprinting
Here’s a quick project I just did to mount an old but good quality powered Belkin 7-port USB hub that I had laying around to the underside of my desk....
APC UPS SMS Notifications with Amazon SNS
2020-03-25
Infrastructure
Automation
Cloud
Aws
The automated graceful shutdown I setup for the hosts protected by my APC UPS on Sunday is working well - but I decided I want to be notified when there’s...