Category Archives: Troubleshooting

Various problems solutions

FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 3 – WireGuard VPN, Linux peer, and routing
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25 December 2025

I am continuing to set up my home server on FreeBSD 14.3, which is intended to serve as a NAS. In the previous post, FreeBSD: introduction to Packet Filter (PF) firewall, we got acquainted with firewalls; the next step is to configure a VPN for access. The main idea is to (finally!) connect my “office”… Read More »

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FreeBSD: Installation on a ThinkPad X200 Tablet in 2025
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23 December 2025

I’ve been a ThinkPad fan for a long time; I really love their entire lineup. Recently, I came across the X200 model, which was manufactured starting in 2008 – I just saw a picture somewhere and really wanted it for my “collection.” Unexpectedly, it was even available for sale in Ukraine, so I bought this… Read More »

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VictoriaMetrics: Recording rules for AWS Load Balancer logs
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6 December 2025

Continuing the topic of AWS Load Balancer logs: in the previous post, Golang: recording AWS Load Balancer logs to VictoriaLogs, we collected logs using our own logs collector in Golang. Now we need to get something useful out of these logs. Previously, when I had Loki on my project, we used its RecordingRules to create… Read More »

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Kubernetes: monitoring processes with process-exporter
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1 November 2025

We are debugging one issue with memory usage in Kubernetes Pods, and decided to look at the memory and number of processes on the nodes. The problem is that a Kubernetes Pod with Livekit usually consumes about 2 gigabytes of memory, but sometimes there are spikes of up to 10-11 gigabytes, which causes the Pod… Read More »

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Terraform: creating an AWS OpenSearch Service cluster and users
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18 September 2025

In the first part, we covered the basics of AWS OpenSearch Service in general and the types of instances for Data Nodes – AWS: Getting Started with OpenSearch Service as a Vector Store. In the second part, we covered access, AWS: Creating an OpenSearch Service Cluster and Configuring Authentication and Authorization. Now let’s write Terraform… Read More »

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VictoriaLogs: “rate limit exceeded” and monitoring ingested logs
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13 September 2025

We use two systems for collecting logs in the project: Grafana Loki and VictoriaLogs, to which Promtail simultaneously writes all collected logs. We cannot get rid of Loki: although developers have long since switched to VictoriaLogs, some alerts are still created from metrics generated by Loki, so it is still present in the system. And… Read More »

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Terraform: AWS EKS Terraform module update from version 20.x to version 21.
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6 August 2025

AWS EKS Terraform module version v21.0.0 added support for the AWS Provider Version 6. Documentation – here>>>. The main changes in the AWS EKS module are the replacement of IRSA with EKS Pod Identity for the Karpenter sub-module: Native support for IAM roles for service accounts (IRSA) has been removed; EKS Pod Identity is now… Read More »

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Terraform: “no available releases match the given constraints
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6 August 2025

A fairly common error when upgrading module versions, when there are restrictions on module or provider versions, and they do not match each other. The Issue In this case, I merged Pull Requests from Renovate and didn’t notice that terraform-aws-modules/terraform-aws-lambda needed hashicorp/aws provider version 6: And first I upgraded Lambda to version 8. After that… Read More »

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Kubernetes: PVC in StatefulSet, and the “Forbidden updates to statefulset spec” error
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22 July 2025

We have a VictoriaLogs Helm chart with a PVC size of 30 GB, which is no longer enough for us, and we need to increase it. But the problem is that .spec.volumeClaimTemplates[*].spec.resources.requests.storage in STS is immutable, that is, we can’t just change the size through values.yaml file, because it will lead to the error“Forbidden: updates… Read More »

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VictoriaMetrics: fixing the “no matches for kind VMAnomaly” error
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10 July 2025

It’s not the first time I’ve encountered similar errors when upgrading VictoriaMetrics, so it’s time to note a solution. So, after upgrading the victoria-metrics-k8s-stack 0.55.0 => 0.56.0, errors appeared in the Operator logs: … {“logger”:”controller-runtime.source.EventHandler”,”msg”:”if kind is a CRD, it should be installed before calling Start”,”kind”:”VMAnomaly.operator.victoriametrics.com”,”error”:”no matches for kind \”VMAnomaly\” in version \”operator.victoriametrics.com/v1\””} … {“logger”:”setup”,”msg”:”cannot… Read More »

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