selenium

Long time ago back in part 21 I blogged on concept level about how to monitor your CCTV streams with Zabbix and some shell scripting. The idea back then was to use mplayer, vlc or similar tool for watching the stream. If the playback stops, then the stream is broken, thus there's something wrong with the camera or the connectivity to it. That method works, but with Zabbix 7.0 and its Selenium tests, it's very much possible to monitor your CCTV natively through Zabbix without any external scripts.

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.

Who wouldn't need a HAProxy in front of their Selenium instances at home? I guess nobody would NEED it but here we are.

I had my Zabbix Selenium tests running on my personal Mac. The trouble is/was that if I took my Mac away from home, or did take it offline for any reason, my tests broke. That. Is. Not. Good.

A quick tip to possibly give you new ideas.

As Zabbix got the new fantastic Selenium-based synthetic web tests, you will now have a new component to monitor. How do you monitori Selenium? With Zabbix, of course! If you are inpatient, feel free to download my very bare bones example template.

Zabbix 7.0rc2 was released few days ago, and one of the most striking additions to it is the pre-built template for the new Selenium-based website monitoring. Of course I had to try it out.

New year comes with new ideas, so I decided to move my blog from LinkedIn to a dedicated website, whatsuphome.fi. This week I'll write about the rationale of my move.

LinkedIn articles did serve my blogging purposes quite well. However, now that my home monitoring thing has become a real thing, it was time to setup a real domain for the blog. 

But why?

A real domain and a dedicated content management system do become with apparent benefits.

Can you take screenshots of your monitored websites with Zabbix? Of course you can! By day, I earn my living by being a monitoring tech lead in a global cyber security company. By night, I monitor my home. Welcome to my weekly blog about how I monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana and do some weird experiments with them.