John WheelerSend Suricata logs on Pfsense to GraylogRumors of the death of intrusion detection and intrusion prevention are greatly exaggerated. My first experience with intrusion detection…9 min read·Apr 29, 2024----
John WheelerMonitor S.M.A.R.T disk metrics on QNAP with ZabbixIt usually starts with a problem. Something that I thought I had setup, stops working. Sometimes the fix is easy, reboot this, update that…21 min read·Apr 6, 2024----
John WheelerMonitor borg backups with ZabbixI learned a painful lesson about alerting when my backups failed and I didn’t know it because I had insufficient monitoring. Though my…8 min read·Mar 5, 2024----
John WheelerUsing Zabbix to monitor your home network.Over the past few years I’ve implemented a few systems to have better visibility into my home network. I’ve installed graylog for…7 min read·Jan 15, 2024----
John WheelerUpgrading Graylog to 5.0 from 4.3 in Docker composeI’ve been ignoring my instance of Graylog as it dutifully ingests the roughly 700 Meg of data it’s being sent daily. I first setup Graylog…16 min read·Nov 12, 2023----
John WheelerinBetter ProgrammingIntegrating AWS Security Hub With Jira Cloud Using Step FunctionsAWS Security Hub provides visibility into your cloud workload and can continuously compare your configuration to best practice13 min read·Sep 25, 2023--1--1
John WheelerMonitoring the Asus RT-AC68U with the Telegraf agent Grafana and Influxdb Part IIIf this article seems familiar, it’s because I wrote about this at the end of 2020 here. Shortly after I suffered through the pain of…6 min read·Aug 13, 2023----
John WheelerMonitoring Borg Backups with PushoverBackups are one thing I generally setup and forget about. I’ve written about setting up backups using borgbackup as well as testing. I…6 min read·Feb 21, 2023----
John WheelerEnable GEO Location Processor on Graylog with Maxmind docker shared volumeIn my last article I was able to setup extraction rules to improve log analysis. I demonstrated a few charts that graphed things like…6 min read·Dec 18, 2022----
John WheelerLogging Pfsense to Graylog using input extraction rulesAfter setting up Graylog on Container Station (Docker for QNAP) I wanted to get better visibility of the ingress/egress traffic from my…7 min read·Oct 17, 2022----