Category: Monitoring

Receiving phone calls with Centreon notifications

Well, Well… Curves are coming… if you have a Centreon monitoring system, or based on Nagios or similar, You may be interested in this post. What we are going to see is how to generate the traditional alerts of our monitoring, but this time we will not use alerts by email or Telegram, but it will make a phone call using an IP PBX that we have in the organization, with it it will call us at the phone number we indicate and in perfect Spanish it will indicate the problem that exists.

Put the Home Assistant DB in MariaDB

Call me meticulous, but I usually put the Home Assistant database on an external server with MariaDB or MySQL, since I usually make remote queries to the DB with some system, or for the issue of backup, robustness, etc… It is not something usual to do, But I'll leave you the steps in case you need it!

Monitoring Citrix Licenses with Centreon

If we want to have centralized control of the licenses of our Citrix environments, we can easily do it with Centreon, as usual, we will base ourselves on a script that will run on the license server and pass its output to Centreon, this way we will know when we are going to run out of licenses and above all, we will have them under control and they will serve to justify new acquisitions.

Monitoring our Bosch Indego lawnmower with Grafana

Come, We continue with a somewhat geeky post, but if you have a garden you may be interested… The thing is, I have one of those robots that mow the lawn at home, specifically a Bosch Indego 350, and through an API given to us by the manufacturer we will be able to know the status of the lawnmower at all times, as well as having access to some interesting values; And by the way, with this API we will also be able to control it, At the end of the post we will see how to check the weather and if it is not raining, Well, we sent it to be cut 😉

Monitoring a Synology Array

If we have a Synology NAS array in our environment, we should take into account centralizing and monitoring its status, No? It will be very easy to integrate it into our Centreon and be able to know at all times its health and that of its components such as disks or volumes, as well as consumption or temperatures! These types of cabins must be under control, since they usually store either backup backups or directly all the company's data.

Book: VMware by vExperts

This atypical post aims to explain a project in which I have had the pleasure of participating, something in which I believe we all benefit, since we have managed to bring together a good group of vExperts and LATAM bloggers to produce the best virtualization book you can find, called VMware by vExperts. Totally free and where thanks to the sponsors we have managed to raise a lot for 2 NGO projects.

Collecting Windows metrics in Elasticsearch with Metricbeat and visualizing with Grafana

In this post, we'll look at another of Elasticsearch's wonderful components, within the Beats packages we will also find a utility that will help us to process and collect metrics from our Windows or Linux computers, known as Metricbeat. We will see how to export these metrics to Logstash to process them and store them in Elasticsearch to later visualize them with Kibana or Grafana!

Redirecting Event Viewer events from Windows computers to Elasticsearch with Winlogbeat and viewing with Grafana

GOOD, once we have already set up our platform with Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana, In this first post, we are going to analyze the events of the Event Viewer of our Windows computers using Winlogbeat! We'll install the small agent and send the events we decide to Logstash to process and store in Elasticsearch, and then we will visualize them with Grafana!