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07. 07. 2022 Lorenzo Candeago DevOps

How to Use a Host’s Redhat Subscription to Run Containers Using Docker instead of Podman

In NetEye 4.23 we shifted our base containers from CentOS to RedHat Enterprise Linux. Within our NetEye image and container we ship packages that come from RedHat Enterprise Linux’s private repositories and are thus subject to subscription, hence we need a way to be able to use our subscription when building NetEye containers. RedHat allows…

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23. 08. 2021 Lorenzo Candeago ITOA

Telegraf’s Starlark Processor

In the world of IT monitoring, we often deal with metrics that are cumulative, or where we cannot control or modify the definition of a metric. Examples include the various Windows performance monitoring metrics for MS Dynamics AX 2013 R3 (AOS) server. These metrics are cumulative, but whenever the AOS services are restarted, or the…

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06. 07. 2021 Lorenzo Candeago ITOA

Continuous Deployment for Grafana Dashboards using Jsonnet and Jenkins, Part 2

In my previous blog post, I introduced our scenario: in a private cloud context, we want to deploy a dashboard for multiple clients created using Grafana, InfluxDB and Telegraf for SQL performance monitoring. We saw how to write a Grafana dashboard programmatically using Jsonnet and upload it to Grafana using the Grafana API. In this…

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06. 07. 2021 Lorenzo Candeago ITOA

Continuous Deployment of Grafana Dashboards Using Jsonnet and Jenkins, Part 1

Say we want to monitor the disk latency of SQL Servers or other Windows Performance Counters in a private cloud context, and plot the results for users of our performance management platform who likely work in different companies. InfluxDB, Telegraf and Grafana are the right tools to achieve this, and with the power of Flux,…

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