@the_jaba

20+ years of sysadmin experience, currently a Systems Engineer @ Forcepoint LLC. Certified GIAC GCIH.

 Espoo, Finland
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Joined August 2009
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What's up, home? part 97: Monitor your GitHub repos with Zabbix. linkedin.com/posts/jannepik_… #zabbix #github #monitoring #templates #api

Part 97: Monitor your GitHub repos with Zabbix | Janne Pikkarainen

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 monitoring your GitHub repositories. Of course...

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I released a Zabbix 7.0 template for typespeed (measuring your typing speed and accuracy) to my GitHub: linkedin.com/posts/jannepik_… #whatsuphome #zabbix

Part 96: Track your typing speed with Zabbix | Janne Pikkarainen

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 accuracy with Zabbix is probably a corner...

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What's up, home? part 96: Track your typing speed with #zabbix: whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/p… #whatsuphome #benchmark #monitoring

Part 96: Track your typing speed with Zabbix

I used the classic typespeed command-line game to measure my typing speed and accuracy, then fed the score data into Zabbix. By parsing the score file and calculating characters per second and typo...

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What's up, home? part 95: Monitor Zabbix Security Advisories 100% with Zabbix whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/p… #whatsuphome #zabbix #api #cybersecurity

Part 95: Monitor Zabbix Security Advisories 100% with Zabbix

I built a Zabbix template that monitors Zabbix Security Advisories entirely within Zabbix itself, with no external scripts or cloud functions. The template uses the Jira REST API to fetch security...

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What's up, home? part 94: Using zabbix-cli v3.x for Zabbix administration. The zabbix-cli tool got recently a complete revamp, which I only found out this morning. lnkd.in/dnChF2af #whatsuphome #zabbix #zabbixcli #shell #commandline #administration

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What's up, home? part 93: Using Zabbix API history.push, let's send currently playing song to Zabbix. Can you send info about the currently playing song from Apple Music to Zabbix? Of course you can! lnkd.in/d4qhe_Vj #whatsuphome #zabbix #monitoring #apple #applemusic

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What's up, home? part 92: hey MonZphere AI assistant, create a host. Ever dreamed of doing your Zabbix tasks over a chatbot? Dream no more, it is now the reality! Check out my sneak peek into it. lnkd.in/dPGpPXT9 #whatsuphome #zabbix #monzphere

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What's up, home? part 91: MonZphere's Zabbix 7.0 Kanban view for issues. Here's another new Zabbix module, this time one that shows the active alerts as a Kanban board much like the sprint view you have in Jira. lnkd.in/dux-aArT #whatsuphome #zabbix #monzphere #kanban

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What's up, home? part 90: thanks to monZphere, Zabbix 7.0 just got a vastly improved maintenance calendar whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/p… #whatsuphome #zabbix #monzphere

Part 90: Thanks to monZphere, Zabbix 7.0 maintenance calendar just got an overhaul

MonZphere, the first company focused 100 percent on Zabbix modules, rebuilt the maintenance calendar for Zabbix 7.0 and gave me early access. Its modern creation dialog can even pick up past mainte...

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What's up, home? part 88: preparing my laptop for #zabbixsummit2024. I have this weird, probably overly paranoid habit of reinstalling my Linux laptop from scratch to use Qubes OS before I go to Zabbix Summit or any conference. lnkd.in/en3ndkcW #whatsuphome #qubesos

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What's up, home? part 86: Thanks to Zabbix, a possible early warning about a dying HDD. whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/p… #whatsuphome #zabbix #monitoring #asuswrtmerlin #asus #router #observability

Part 86: Thanks to Zabbix, a possible early warning about a dying HDD

Zabbix flagged unusual CPU spikes and 26 percent I/O wait times on my Asus WRT-Merlin home router, hinting that an aging external HDD was failing. By monitoring SNMP data and system metrics through...

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What's up, home? part 79: Zabbix 7.0 takes website monitoring to new level with native Selenium-based tests. whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/p… #whatsuphome #zabbix #monitoring #websitemonitoring #selenium #rum

Part 79: Zabbix 7.0 takes website monitoring to new level

Zabbix 7.0 adds a new Browser item type powered by Selenium that tests websites exactly as end-users see them, including screenshot capture. Setting it up requires a Selenium server and two lines in...

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What's up, home? part 75: How do you know if you have backups? Zabbix to the rescue! whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/p… #whatsuphome #zabbix #mysql #backup #restore #zulucrypt

Part 75: How do you know if you have backups?

I automate the full backup restore cycle for my Zabbix instance to verify that backups are actually usable, not just stored. The process includes taking physical backups, restoring them to a test...

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What's up, home? part 70: What's your name, again? Time for DNS monitoring with Zabbix! linkedin.com/posts/jannepik_… #whatsuphome #zabbix #monitoring #homemonitoring #observability #syntheticmonitoring #dns

Part 70: What's your name, again? Time for DNS monitoring! | Janne Pikkarainen

What’s up, home? part 70: What’s your name, again? Time for DNS monitoring! This week I have built some el cheapo global monitoring using Zabbix and Proton VPN. The third entry completes the synthe...

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What's up, home? part 61: My Zabbix goes Generative AI. Can you join Zabbix with a locally run LLM? Of course you can! whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/p… #whatsuphome #zabbix #gpt4all #generativeai #monitoring #homemonitoring

Part 61: My Zabbix goes Generative AI

I connected my Zabbix to a locally running GPT4All language model using a simple Python script. By adding the script to Zabbix context menus, I can ask AI questions about my monitoring setup directly...

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What's up, home? part 67: Track airport departures with Grafana's Infinity data source. whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/p… #whatsuphome #grafana #infinity #helsinki #airport #observability

Part 67: Track airport departures with Grafana's Infinity data source

I use Grafana's Infinity data source to scrape the Helsinki-Vantaa airport departure page and parse its HTML table of flights. The data feeds into text tables, top-destination panels, and a Sankey...

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What's up, home? part 68: Global availability monitoring with Zabbix via a single home router. I have a global audience, so would be nice to know how fast my site works from different parts of the world. whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/p… #whatsuphome #zabbix #monitoring #vpn #protonvpn

Part 68: Global availability monitoring via a single home router

I monitor my blog's global availability by running multiple Proton VPN tunnels on a single home router, each hosting a Zabbix agent in a different geographic region. This lets me run HTTP, DNS, and...

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What's up, home? part 47: Can you monitor your iPhone battery drainage level with Zabbix? Of course you can! whatsuphome.fi/whatsuphome/p… #whatsuphome #zabbix #grafana #homeassistant #iphone #monitoring #monitoringhome

Part 47: Does your phone battery drain faster in summer time?

I collect my iPhone battery percentage data into Zabbix and compare average drain rates between summer and winter months. The results show noticeably faster battery drain during summer, likely from...

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What’s up, home? news: My blog has been a bit silent lately, but no worries, I have not abandoned it. I’ve been busy building a way more advanced Zabbix <–> Blender 3D integration. Here’s a small teaser. whatsuphome.fi/news/20230518… #whatsuphome #zabbix #blender #3d #integration

Way enhanced Blender integration coming up soon

A teaser for the vastly improved version of my Zabbix and Blender 3D integration: BlenderKit helped me build proper living room, kitchen and home office scenes, and I can now add augmented texts. The...

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