Category Archives: HOWTO’s

Ansible: check if a package is installed on a remote system
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10 March 2019

Have a self-written letsencrypt role (see the Prometheus: RTFM blog monitoring set up with Ansible – Grafana, Loki, and promtail post). Before running the Let’s Encrypt client to obtain a new certificate – need to check if NGINX is installed on a remote host. Let’s use the package_facts module: … – name: “Check if NGINX is… Read More: Ansible: check if a package is installed on a remote… »

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Prometheus: RTFM blog monitoring set up with Ansible – Grafana, Loki, and promtail
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10 March 2019

After implementing the Loki system on my job’s project – I decided to add it for myself, so see my RTFM blog server’s logs. Also – want to add the node_exporter and alertmanager, to be notified about high disk usage. In this post, I’ll describe the Prometheus, node_exporter, Grafana, Loki, and promtail set up process… Read More: Prometheus: RTFM blog monitoring set up with Ansible – Grafana,… »

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OpenVPN – auto-start on Linux
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8 March 2019

I have an OpenVPN AS server running on EC2 in AWS and the openvnp client on my Arch Linux (см.OpenVPN: настройка OpenVPN Access Server и AWS VPC peering). Need to have it started and connection established after OS start. Will use the systemd, documentation is here>>>, will work with any other Linux-system. Client’s configs have… Read More: OpenVPN – auto-start on Linux0 (0) »

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AWS: RDS logs, export to the CloudWatch Logs and CloudFormation template
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7 March 2019

We have a bunch of the AWS RDS with MariaDB. Backend-developers asked me to enable slow requests logs so they can debug their application. So the task is: enable AWS RDS logging and configure export to the CloudWatch Logs for further analysis. As everything else – our RDS instances are configured via CloudFormation templates, so… Read More: AWS: RDS logs, export to the CloudWatch Logs and CloudFormation… »

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Prometheus: blackbox-exporter probe_http_status_code == 0 and its debug
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6 March 2019

Today I decided to upgrade Grafana to already released version 6.0 and all other Docker images as well. Upgrade was successful – Loki eventually started displaying previously missed log-file names and other tags, just – immediately I got a bunch of CRITICAL alerts in our Slack from the blackbox-exporter which is used to check every… Read More: Prometheus: blackbox-exporter probe_http_status_code == 0 and its debug0 (0) »

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Arch Linux: Steam installation
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6 March 2019

Got a new PC and want to play games here. World of Tanks already works – check the World of Tanks: installing and running on Arch Linux, and now I want to install Steam. It worked with no issues on Ubuntu a few years ago and I could play Civilization V there – so now… Read More: Arch Linux: Steam installation0 (0) »

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Arch Linux: installation, troubleshooting and playing EVE Online
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4 March 2019

After the successful installation of WoT on my new Arch Linux setup (see the World of Tanks: installing and running on Arch Linux post) I decided to “achieve the next milestone” – install EVE Online. On a Google search by the “EVE Online Linux” request, I found the wiki.eveuniversity.org guide and tried to use it… Read More: Arch Linux: installation, troubleshooting and playing EVE Online0 (0) »

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Linux: woeusb – creating Windows USB boot flash drive
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4 March 2019

Well – sometimes have to do a bit weird things… Need to create bootable USB flash drive with WIndows 10 using console on Linux. There are various solutions but today I found the woeusb utility and it works pretty well plus it can format a drive to a necessary filesystem. Intsall on Arch Linux from… Read More: Linux: woeusb – creating Windows USB boot flash drive0 (0) »

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MySQL/MariaDB: most used commands with examples
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3 March 2019

Please note – this is absolutely not a complete guide about all MySQL commands usage – but just examples of the most commonly used ones. mysql> at the begin of the line means it’s executed from the MySQL console. Symbols # or $ means it’s executed from the Linux shell. UPD 03.03.2019 This post originally… Read More: MySQL/MariaDB: most used commands with examples0 (0) »

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