Subj : Monitoring BBS logs
To : Mike Miller
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Thu Feb 01 2024 01:03 pm
Re: Monitoring BBS logs
By: Mike Miller to Dan Clough on Thu Feb 01 2024 02:26 pm
> I do have another dashboard that I'm working on. It has number of
> connections over time, number of connections by IP address, and a few other
> things.
>
>
> doing this via logs is not all that efficient, though. At some point I'll
> likely create some kind of prometheus exporter to just scrape data, rather
> than forcing grafana to parse its entire history of logs (only 48 hours
> worth on the free tier) to display data.
>
> Grafana will, however, allow you to set up alerts based on triggers, such
> as a specific line in a log file. SBBS choked on me in a weird way the
> other day, for the first time in forever, so I may set it up to send an
> alert to my phone if something like that happens again. I didn't catch it,
> and the board was down for more than a day.
This sounds like a good use for MQTT:
https://wiki.synchro.net/ref:mqtt
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