I've been shifting focus at work, from performance engineering to observability, and that means learning a whole lot. More learning in public! First up: #loki. It's a databases for logs with some interesting design decisions that make it more performant than other logs databases. Here's a video I made with my colleague, Jay Clifford, to share what we've learned, including a demo app that ties in Loki, Grafana, and Alloy: https://youtu.be/1uk8LtQqsZQ
Playing with #Grafana and loading a local CSV.
I've got data from several sources in the file, the source name is in the first column of the CSV, how can I get grafana to plot four different plots, one for each source name?
TIL how to enable the new Explore Logs app for #loki . Turns out the latest versions of Loki and #grafana don't work with it yet, so you have to specify the right versions and change a few other things in the Docker Compose config. It's so cool that this is open source and not Cloud-only.
#StickerApp just sent me an email, informing me that I have not bought stickers in a while (I buy through a #Grafana role account these days) and unless I opt in again, they will remove me from their mailing list.
That's how you retain eyeballs which matter -- informed consent. Guess where I will buy my next stickers again...
All the props to @tailscale for releasing SSO to everyone without a tax. I wish more organizations would do this, and realize that it's really in everyone's best interest. https://tailscale.com/blog/sso-tax-cut
We recently got a wifi-enabled hot tub. Some enterprising soul had already created a HA addon to work with it, so I set about implementing #observability, #automation and #alerting.
Amongst other things, it now starts heating automatically if there's plunge pricing on #octopusenergy Agile
Experimente zur Vorbereitung auf Tibber:
Laden der Hausbatterie aus dem öffentlichen Netz.
Das Gute? Es funktioniert und man kann über SMA SunnyPortal einen wöchentlichen Ladeplan mit viertelstündlicher Auflösung hinterlegen, um damit die Niedrigpreisphasen zu nutzen. (1/2) #Energiewende#Tibber#SMA#HomeAssistant
@bodomenke naja wirklich empfehlen kann ich es nicht: Ich habe sowas aus Quatsch "mal schnell" gebaut um die Mülltonnenleerungen in #Grafana zu erfassen... Es war ein fürchterliches Gefummel und nach gefühlten zwei Wochen schon kaputt :-/
Dites les pro de #grafana, j'aimerais réussir à parser une chaîne de caractères du genre /ceci/est/une/chaine/ pour en extraire un bout et en faire une variable pour dashboard.
As per usual, I'll be at #KubeCon next week. If you always had a question or just wanted to meet, hit me up.
For the first time in many many years I don't have to give a single talk, so I will amble back and forth between customer meetings and hanging out at the #Grafana booth.
And we'll have the #Prusa Mk4 for #3Dprinting swag on site. I preprinted roughly two spools into coins, earrings, and keychain ornaments on my XL.
Who wants to host a future #Grafana#Meetup in #Munich (or elsewhere?) or speak at one of them? Target venue size is usually ~50 people, depending on city.
Guess what's in the #CERN VIP visitor center.. The monitor, keyboard, and mouse of the NXT station Tim Berners-Lee created the #WWW on (the computer is in London, it seems) -- and a #Grafana dashboard.
The monitor has a large dimple on top from all the people touching it.