As my home monitoring experiment has become such a celebrity and as it has so much going on, I’m trying to make sure I won’t ever lose its configuration and data, no matter what would happen. Here are some tips and reminders for you, too.

In the previous blog post, we just explored some of the basic statistic concepts to estimate KPIs for a web application response time: in that case, average, median and percentile. Now we must continue our work but this time, analyzing some variances of the collected metrics, considering a certain period.

Can you verify if your phone battery drains faster during summer compared to other seasons with Zabbix? Of course, you can!

Zabbix is highly regarded for its ability to integrate with a variety of systems right out of the box. That list of systems has recently been expanded with the addition of Event-Driven Ansible. Bringing Zabbix and Event-Driven Ansible together lets you completely automate your IT processes, with Zabbix being the source of events and Ansible […]

When reading this blog, you could easily think that everything is smooth sailing all the time. No. When you monitor your home IoT — or frankly, just USE your home IoT — you have plenty of small details to watch out for. I list them for you, so you don’t have to find them out […]

SNMP – Simple network management protocol is a networking protocol that is extremely prevalent in network hardware such as switches and routers, as well as a variety of other devices such as printers, power supplies and even regular server hosts. Depending on the device, a wide array of metrics can be retrieved by using SNMP […]