A collection of nerdy things done in nerdy ways to break, fix, and learn technology
Deep inside VMware’s Office of the CTO (or OCTO as we lovingly call it) lies an innovation engine, a secret weapon you might not realize exists. It’s called xLabs, a team of brilliant minds working on new innovations for customers, partners, and employees that are 1-3 years ahead of roadmap (now part of VMware AI…
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…
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…
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…