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Collecting logs with Grafana Loki and Promtail

Collecting logs with Grafana Loki and Promtail

Having a central place to view or search through server logs is awesome. I’ve used Graylog in the past, but I’ve always felt it was a bit cumbersome to set up and use — and it felt overkill for my …

Local email server — with Postfix and Dovecot

Local email server — with Postfix and Dovecot

I have a local mail server with Postfix and Dovecot — I use it as a local SMTP smart host, and “notification center”. While gathering information for this post; I discovered that my file server have …

PowerWalker UPS, NUT, and Home Assistant

PowerWalker UPS, NUT, and Home Assistant

I’m using a Raspberry Pi to communicate with the power equipment in my homelab rack; the UPS, ATS and PDU. For the UPS, I’m using NUT (Network UPS Tools), and for the ATS and PDU; my own PowerWalker …

Three useful Ansible info playbooks

Three useful Ansible info playbooks

I recently started upgrading my servers and containers to Ubuntu 20.04. I made three Ansible playbooks to get information about which hosts I needed to update.