Ping metrics with Prometheus and Grafana

A simple post, that I believe can contribute in any area, And it's nothing more than pinging 😊😂, Let's see I laugh, but it provides interesting information on many occasions. In this post we will see how to send pings to internal/external IP addresses that we are interested in knowing their latency, if there are cuts… and understand it visually with Grafana.

Monitoring Crowdsec with Centreon

If you have implemented Crowdsec and Centreon in your organization, I imagine that apart from being happy and resting, You will have everything quite under control; but, and… What if I tell you that from Centreon we can monitor the bans that Crowdsec gives us?? Effectively, when Crowdsec adds an IP address to the blacklist we can alert ourselves via Centreon!

Auditing access to removable storage devices

The use of removable storage devices is usually not allowed in organizations, you should not at least be able to connect a USB flash drive or removable hard drives. But it is true that in exceptions, They are needed, and for this purpose a GPO is usually defined with a whitelist of allowed USB devices and applied to the users/computers that need them. But ,How do you use them??