Janne Pikkarainen

@whatsuphome
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By day, I am a Lead Site Reliability Engineer in a global cyber security company. By night, I monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana and do some weird experiments with them.
Bloghttps://whatsuphome.fi/
LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jannepik/
What’s up, home? Part 140: Monitor Tailscale with Zabbix https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part140 #whatsuphome #zabbix #tailscale #claude #monitoring
Part 140: Monitor Tailscale with Zabbix | What's up, home?

I monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana and do some weird experiments with them. Want to know how to monitor your Apple Watch with Zabbix? Your surroundings? AI? You got it here.

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What’s up, home? Part 139: Bad Apple but it’s Zabbix. I installed OpenAI’s Codex and soon enough I had a custom Zabbix 7.x widget for playing Bad Apple meme animation inside Zabbix 30 frames per second. Better yet, it runs on a freely rotatable and zoomable X3D format cube to make it fancier. Plus it shows Zabbix alerts! https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part139
Part 139: Bad Apple but it's Zabbix | What's up, home?

I monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana and do some weird experiments with them. Want to know how to monitor your Apple Watch with Zabbix? Your surroundings? AI? You got it here.

What's up, home?
What’s up, home? part 104: monitor your PEF results with Zabbix. https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part104 #whatsuphome #zabbix #pef #health #monitoring
Part 104: Track your PEF results with Zabbix | What's up, home?

I've had a very long-running on-off asthma-stylish cough, recently getting worse than ever. No worries, my dear readers, I can live normal life, I go to work, live with my family, do all that, everything is well apart from annoyance.Anyway, fpr debugging me, the doctors have taken all kinds of tests from me and the latest one is that I'll be doing PEF tests for two weeks twice a day. In PEF tests, you blow to a meter which then tells how many liters per minute you can huff and puff. For tracking the results, they gave me a paper. PAPER. PAPER! That blows. 

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What’s up, home? Part 103: Netbox as home CMDB and integrated with Zabbix: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part103 #whatsuphome #zabbix #cmdb #netbox #integration
Part 103: Netbox as home CMDB and integrated with Zabbix | What's up, home?

Welcome to another episode of What's up, home? weirdness. Who wouldn't have their own Netbox at home and who wouldn't think of it as home CMDB? I just started experimenting with that. For those who do not know, CMDB -- or Configuration Management Database -- is the source of truth for your inventory of stuff. In data centers, your servers, their cables, their everything, telling in which data center and which rack they are.

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What’s up, home? Part 102: New era for What’s up, home? Infra: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part102 #whatsuphome #zabbix #proxmox #opnsense #foreman #katello
Part 102: New era for What's up, home? infra | What's up, home?

Do you know the feeling when you planned to do just some little changes and few days later you realize you might have gone a bit overkill with your setup? I do now. No new hardware here at What's up, home dungeon, but my Linux laptop has now a bit different setup and I'm probably not even done yet. What I'm doing is that I'm exploring the treasures and gems brought us to by the fantastic world of open-source. Thank you, everybody who makes this possible!

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What’s up, home? Part 101: Zabbix plays rock-paper-scissors. https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part101 #whatsuphome #zabbix #selenium #browseritemtype
Part 101: Zabbix plays rock-paper-scissors | What's up, home?

Zabbix 7.0 is so fast that in a small environment such as What's up, home? it gets bored. Very bored.What does Zabbix do when it gets bored? It uses its new Selenium-based Browser item type and plays some Rock-Paper-Scissors against this blog site.

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What’s up, home? Part 100: What’s next for the blog, Proxmox, Zabbix Summit 2024 recap: https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part100 #whatsuphome #zabbix #monitoring
Part 100: What's next for the blog, Proxmox, Zabbix Summit 2024 recap | What's up, home?

It's been one hundred blog posts already! Wow! To celebrate that, this blog post will be covering some of the past, the present, and the future.Zabbix Summit 2024 aftermathThis year, Zabbix Summit 2024 was probably the best ever personally. It seemed that everybody knew me, and I got very good contacts from several companies and met great new people. The speaks, the parties, the food, the people, Riga, everything just excellent. Thank you!Here's my What's up, home? goes Generative AI speech from the summit:

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What's up, home? part 98: Describe the Zabbix dashboards and status for visually impaired. MonZphere is attempting to take the accessibility of Zabbix to whole new level with a new custom widget which uses generative AI for summarizing what the dashboard is showing to you, is there any suggested actions that should be taken, and so forth.

As I have access to monZphere's demo/test environment, I tried out the plugin and it's very promising!

https://whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/part98

Part 98: Describe the Zabbix dashboards and status for visually impaired | What's up, home?

Let's get back to monZphere for a moment. One of the custom Zabbix widgets they provide -- AI Insights -- is something completely different. 

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Janne Pikkarainen on LinkedIn: Part 97: Monitor your GitHub repos with Zabbix

What's up, home? part 97: monitor your GitHub repos with Zabbix. While checking Zabbix 7.0.4rc1 release notes, I noticed that there's a new template for…

Janne Pikkarainen on LinkedIn: Part 96: Track your typing speed with Zabbix

A quick note: I released a Zabbix 7.0 typespeed integration template to my GitHub for those who would be interested. Yes, measuring your typing speed and…