Welcome to the VMware Documentation Tour!

Several months ago I started building a guide to using VMware documentation that was first a single blog post, launched into a blog series, and then morphed into a presentation at the Boston VMUG UserCon in September 2019.  I realized while preparing that there was a better way to organize the content and a number…

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Verifying Wavefront Proxy Log Ingestion

In my last post in this series, it looks like we have everything in place for the Wavefront proxy to receive Pi-hole log data (only sending data from pihole.log for now), but how can we confirmed the logs were received by the proxy before working to create metrics from the log contents?  This particular part…

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Shipping Pi-hole Logs to a Wavefront Proxy

If you read my last post, there’s a Wavefront proxy running on a Ubuntu server in EC2 ready to collect data, transform it, and send it to Wavefront.   There is a way to create metrics from logs, and my goal is to get Pi-hole logs into Wavefront for analysis.  Based on this video, there are…

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The Journey Continues…One Year Later

What would you do if a friend suggested the two of you start a podcast?  That’s exactly what happened to me back in December 2017 right before changing jobs.  When you’ve never helped create or co-host a podcast, you truly have no idea what it takes.  I had been a podcast guest once before, but…

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Creating a Wavefront Proxy in AWS

Have you ever had a fun idea for a project but didn’t quite know how to get from beginning to end?  That’s exactly where I find myself while writing this post.  All it takes is one idea to get the mental gears going.  Let’s see if I can step through my idea without giving away…

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REV+FLOW: A Letter to My Coach

If you’re someone who enjoys a more technical post, this isn’t it.  But I think there are some elements to this post that will apply to the thought process of people in just about any role.  Here we go.   Dear Coach, There’s a reason I’m here today that I can’t explain in a brief…

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