Grafana Prometheus Monitoring

Hey everybody, today we will be going through on how to setup a Grafana + Prometheus stack to allow you to monitor external tools such as Blocky and other services that can output to prometheus(Basically anything with some effort). I have used this to monitor my Linux ISO collector, and my DNS server and it has worked great and has allowed me to create nice dashboards for use. We will be using docker and docker compose to set it up with bind mounts so that trasnfering data is easy. ...

September 14, 2023 · 3 min · 591 words · Stetsed

Mailrise Email Notifications Gateway

Hey everybody, I usually don’t have notifications because well… I don’t want to get a third party email service to send emails. So when looking for solutions I recently found Mailrise which acts as a SMTP gateway and forwards emails to your own email address. It’s a great solution to use because it means you can send notifications anywhere and in this guide I will be showing how to set it up on Discord. ...

June 28, 2023 · 3 min · 585 words · Stetsed