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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.

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.

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.

Yay! Back in part 37 of this blog I found out that double-digit negative values were not correctly colorised by their threshold in a single item value widget. But, like I expected, Zabbix the company was quick to fix the issue after I reported it as this was such a trivial fix, and the bug has been now fixed in Zabbix 6.4.0rc2. Behold!

Three cheers for dynamic item value background colours! I just upgraded to Zabbix 6.4.0rc1 and the new dynamic panels literally bring new colour to my life. But... YO ZABBIX TEAM! Did I find a bug?

I updated to Zabbix 6.4.0 release candidate one about 30 minutes ago, and one immediate thing I have waited to get to do would be to start using the dynamic colours in the item value panels.

YAY! Now I have them.

Not yet in all of my panels, but I decided to come and write this blog post immediately for two reasons:

Earlier in this series I wondered if Zabbix could help with monitoring the baby's nocturnal waking.

It appears that... drumroll... 

YES, YOU CAN!

After we adjusted the thermostat a bit the baby has been sleeping much, much better.

I currently do have NetFlow traffic monitoring at home. But how? By day, I am a lead site reliability engineer in a global cybersecurity company. By night, I monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana and do some weird experiments with them.