Install Grafana Loki on a local Kubernetes Cluster

This guide describes how to install a Grafana Loki instance with Event Exporter and Promtail on a local Kubernetes Cluster (using KinD). First you will install Docker on Windows, then deploy a Kubernetes Cluster on Docker using Kind. After that you will install Grafana Loki and Event Exporter and Promtail. The last step is executing … Read more

Strava activities in Grafana

This is for monitoring inclined cyclists and runners that also happen to use Strava for activity logging (who is not!?). This post takes you through connecting Grafana to Strava. There is an well maintained data source for Grafana available (here). This data source connects to the Strava API and retrieves information about your activities. The … Read more

ZABBIX as a Kafka Consumer

By integrating Zabbix with a messaging system such as Kafka, you unlock the ability to subscribe to and interpret messages, enabling the capture of performance statistics and information provided through these messages. This synergy enhances near real-time monitoring and issue detection, allowing for immediate action and ensuring system reliability and efficiency. Kafka consists of Producers … Read more