Winter is coming! Winter time has already arrived, and soon the Corona Lockdown aswell. Sitting at home in the warmth with a cup of tea, having a complete overview of the IT is a good feeling. The catchword here is “complete”. I don’t rely on traditional blackbox monitoring solutions1 but rather on the whitebox solution called Prometheus2. Read more

I’ve started using Apache-Exporter1 for monitoring and checking this weekend how useful it is and how it can be integrated into my Prometheus2 monitoring enviroment. The server-status requests inevitably lead to more “background noise” in the Apache logfiles. The screenshot below clearly shows in the upper less section: Read more