Monitor home and just about everything with Zabbix and Grafana

Can you monitor an USB-connected printer with Zabbix? Of course you can! But can ChatGPT help setting up the monitoring? Well... erm... maybe! By day, I am a Lead Site Reliability Engineer in a global cyber security company, Forcepoint. By night, I monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana and do some weird experiments with them. Welcome to my blog about the project.

Can you monitor your mobile data usage with Zabbix? Of course you can! 
 

As it is Easter, this entry is a bit short but as I was remoting into my home systems over VPN and my phone, I got this blog post idea. 

When on the go, I tend to stay connected to my home network over VPN. Or rather, an iOS Shortcut pretty much runs OpenVPN home profile for me whenever I exit my home. 
 

I've been busy as a bee, so I've been unable to post new content here... anyway can you imagine it's been more than one year of What's up, home? already?! Time flies! 

To celebrate that, here's a proof of how bad I am still with remembering to apply my facial cream. Check out this SLA report for some recent weeks. I still get alerted about it and still after an alert it can go for long enough that my SLA can be really bad. Uh oh. Maybe on one day I'll learn.

I'm entering a whole new level of monitoring and "What's up, home?" could now also be called "What's up, me?". Recently my colleague did hint me about Home Assistant's HomeKit Controller integration just to get my HomeKit-compatible Netatmo environmental monitoring device to get to return value back to Zabbix without my Siri kludge.  One thing lead to another and now I'm monitoring my iPhone and Apple Watch -- so, practically monitoring myself.

My colleague hinted me about Home Assistant's HomeKit Controller integration for monitoring my Netatmo environmental sensor. It works! I mean, I got it to show on my Home Assistant already.

Zabbix 6.4.0 has landed! I've been running the RC versions for some time now and everything's been stable, so go and update your Zabbix (with the usual cautionary steps, of course). Of course, my home Zabbix now runs 6.4.0, too.

Can you integrate a CO2 meter which really wouldn't want you to integrate it with Zabbix, with Zabbix? Of course you can! By day, I'm a Lead Site Reliability Engineer in a global cyber security company. By night, I monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana and do some weird experiments with them.

I have an el cheapo environmental monitor by Netatmo, showing the temperature, humidity, CO2 level and noise level.

Can you create a proper weather dashboard with Zabbix? Of course you can! By day, I am a Lead Site Reliability Engineer in a global cyber security company. By night, I monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana and do some weird experiments with them.

Since Zabbix 6.2 (or 6.0? Cannot remember...) has provided you an official OpenWeatherMap template. It gives you all the standard weather details: temperature, humidity, and so on, for any location you'd like to observe.

Until now this site was running with Drupal 9 default theme, Oliveiro. Today I changed the site layout to Electra theme, so if you think the site looks different than before, you are not imagining it.

Can you monitor how much you drive your car, even if your car wouldn't have any way to report back to Zabbix? Of course you can! By day, I am a Lead Site Reliability Engineer in a global cyber security company. By night, I monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana and do some weird experiments with them. Welcome to my blog about the project.