Grafana: Ingest MacOS data

I have installed and tested this on Monterey Beta 12.3 & Catalina 10.15.7. The default configuration only shows: CPU Usage, Load Average and Network Traffic. I am sure there is a way to extend this, but I will post that later when I have time. Install and configure node_exporter # Install node_exporter $ brew install …

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Grafana/Prometheus/Loki: Linux Install

Having a home lab is great but being able to monitor everything is even better. In this example I am setting up Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Promtail and Node_Exporter on a monitoring server and Promtail, Node_Exporter on a client. My Grafana server is running OEL 8.5 which is essentially Red Hat 8.x. Components Minisrv1 - i5 …

Disable NetworkManager for OEL 7/8

Disabling NetworkManager The following steps will disable NetworkManager service and allows the interface to be managed only by network service. 1. To check which are the interfaces managed by NetworkManager # nmcli device status This displays a table that lists all network interfaces along with their STATE. If Network Manager is not controlling an interface, …

How to delete a permission denied file

I had a folder in Monterey Beta 12 that I could not delete, but this can happen any any macOS version. What happens from time to time is when trashing apps or doing updates a file will still be locked or linked to the original path or filename. This happened to me recently when I …