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A blog on monitoring, scale and operational Sanity

December 19, 2016

Checking if SSH is responding with Prometheus

The blackbox_exporter allows for a variety of network checks to be performed, with many common modules available out of the box.

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September 21, 2015

Audio Alerting with Prometheus

Prometheus offers integrations with systems like PagerDuty, Email and Hipchat for alert notifications - but what if you want do something that's not supported out of the box? The Alertmanager's generic web hook has got you covered.

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September 7, 2015

Get alerted before your SSL certificates expire

The most common way to learn about the expiry date of your website's SSL certificate is after it has expired. The blackbox exporter combined with Prometheus can let you know well in advance, letting you renew your certificate before users complain.

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