Monitor home and just about everything with Zabbix and Grafana

Can you monitor your ad-blocker with Zabbix? Of course you can!

My home Asus router is running on Asuswrt-Merlin firmware, and with that I have AdGuard Home ad-blocker.

As AdGuard Home has an API, monitoring it with Zabbix is trivial.

Can you monitor tripped fuses with Zabbix? Of course you can!

Some time ago our district heating got some beating. There was a heavy storm which probably did cause the fuse for our district heating device to trip, and I did only notice that after maybe ten hours by accident. I noticed it when I went to check the ventilation control panel, which is in the same closet than our district heating device.

Just a bit over one month and it's time for Zabbix Summit 2023! See you there!

Today Forcepoint's Finland team had our Community Service Day, during which we do something good for our communities. Much of the team went for example to donate blood or do some outdoor activities, like helping to clean parks and beaches.

I decided to help one of our local businesses. Not giving out its name because that would immediately reveal where I live. Anyway, the business owners were totally impressed that someone would offer them support like this for free.

As my home monitoring experiment has become such 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's some tips and reminders for you, too.

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

Since the Zabbix Summit 2023 page seems to list me already, I'll go public here, too: I will again be a speaker at the Zabbix Summit in 2023. See you in Riga in October!

I've been a bit silent here lately. But don't you worry, I'm not getting bored or abandoning this blog. Instead I got a motivation to improve my Zabbix <--> Blender 3D integration from last year. Here's a quick teaser on how it looks like.

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 the hard way like I've done over this 1+ year of journey.

Can you create a radio station with Zabbix? Of course you can! Have you ever wondered what kind of theme song an AI would write about Zabbix? Or how it would sound like if someone would sing your Zabbix alerts? Then keep on reading.