Home Assistant

Home Assistant is free and open-source software for home automation designed to be a central control system for smart home devices with a focus on local control and privacy. It can be accessed through a web-based user interface by using companion apps for Android and iOS, or by voice commands . Rhasspy is…

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Telegraf

Telegraf is a server-based agent for collecting all kinds of metrics for further processing. It’s a piece of software that you can install anywhere in your infrastructure and it will read metrics from specified sources – typically application logs, events, or…

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InfluxDB

InfluxDB is an open-source time series database developed by the company InfluxData. It is written in the Go programming language for storage and retrieval of time series data in fields such as operations monitoring, application metrics, Internet of Things sensor…

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Grafana

Grafana is a multi-platform open source analytics and interactive visualization web application. It provides charts, graphs, and alerts for the web when connected to supported data sources.  

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Prometheus

Prometheus is a free software application used for event monitoring and alerting. It records real-time metrics in a time series database (allowing for high dimensionality) built using a HTTP pull model, with flexible queries and real-time alerting.

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GitLab CE

GitLab is a DevOps software package that combines the ability to develop, secure, and operate software in a single application.  Git is a version control system used to track changes in computer files. Git’s primary purpose is to manage any changes…

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PXEBoot (X86+EFI)

Any OS can support PXE/EFI boot possibilities to other systems booting. This post will focus on creating a X86/EFI boot environment using Debian for booting various other systems. The post will primarily focus on booting other Linux environments, there will…

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