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Last week I got to experience the fun little thing that is pneumonia. It was annoying but luckily not TOO bad. Nevertheless, nearly +39C for some time plus some side effects of that made me sleep a lot. Or, if not sleeping, at least staying in my bed.

What does a monitoring nerd do while trying to heal? Thinks how to monitor his fever, of course. 

Zabbix 7.2 is almost out with its 7.2.0rc2 release so I today updated my dear What's up, home? environment to it. What possibly could go wrong with a release candidate version? 

I've had a very long-running on-off asthma-stylish cough, recently getting worse than ever. No worries, my dear readers, I can live normal life, I go to work, live with my family, do all that, everything is well apart from annoyance.

Anyway, fpr debugging me, the doctors have taken all kinds of tests from me and the latest one is that I'll be doing PEF tests for two weeks twice a day. In PEF tests, you blow to a meter which then tells how many liters per minute you can huff and puff. For tracking the results, they gave me a paper. PAPER. PAPER! That blows. 

Welcome to another episode of What's up, home? weirdness. Who wouldn't have their own Netbox at home and who wouldn't think of it as home CMDB? I just started experimenting with that. For those who do not know, CMDB -- or Configuration Management Database -- is the source of truth for your inventory of stuff. In data centers, your servers, their cables, their everything, telling in which data center and which rack they are.

Do you know the feeling when you planned to do just some little changes and few days later you realize you might have gone a bit overkill with your setup? I do now. No new hardware here at What's up, home dungeon, but my Linux laptop has now a bit different setup and I'm probably not even done yet. What I'm doing is that I'm exploring the treasures and gems brought us to by the fantastic world of open-source. Thank you, everybody who makes this possible!

Zabbix 7.0 is so fast that in a small environment such as What's up, home? it gets bored. Very bored.

What does Zabbix do when it gets bored? It uses its new Selenium-based Browser item type and plays some Rock-Paper-Scissors against this blog site.

Now that Zabbix rolled out their Zabbix Cloud, of course I rushed in to create a new instance for me. This must be about my quickest blog post ever.

Getting my Zabbix Cloud account was very painless indeed! Few clicks to create an account, within 10-15 minutes I got an e-mail that everything is ready, then few more clicks (like give a name for my instance), wait for the instance to spin up, done! See, it's up:

Let's get back to monZphere for a moment. One of the custom Zabbix widgets they provide -- AI Insights -- is something completely different.

While checking Zabbix 7.0.4rc1 release notes, I noticed this little change:

... and true enough, git.zabbix.com already has the template available for download. Of course I had to try that out.

Can you monitor your typing speed and accuracy with Zabbix? Of course you can! 

Why?

For some time now, I have felt that the external keyboard I use at home makes me a clumsy typer. Whenever I type with my Linux laptop or Mac keyboard, I feel like I make less typos than with the otherwise comfortable external keyboard.  To make the testing more scientific, time to summon good old typespeed and hook it with Zabbix.