Store Terraform State on Backblaze S3
Use Tradfri Shortcut Button with Home Assistant
Sometimes it can be helpful if single actions or entire automation in your Home Automation can be triggered with a physical button and not only from the Web UI. I’m using Zigbee2MQTT as a generic Zigbee to MQTT bridge as it supports a lot of different Zigbee devices and integrates flawlessly into Home Assistant. As I have a lot of different Tradfri Lamps in use already, I have bought a few of the Tradfri Shortcut Button (E1812).
How to (not) migrate Graylog to Opensearch
Graylog is a centralized log management solution to capture, store and analyze log files in real-time. Starting with the latest minor release 4.3 Graylog announced to no longer support Elasticsearch (ES) due to licensing and structural changes Elastic introduced in v7.11. For this reason, the last supported ES version is 7.10, which has already reached EOL on May 11, 2022.
Collect JSON metrics with Telegraf
Telegraf is a powerful, plugin based metrics collector that also provides Prometheus compatible outputs. For various purposes, there are a number of input plugins that can collect metrics from various sources. Even more powerful are the processor plugins that allow metrics to be processed and manipulated as they pass through, and immediately output results based on the values they process. In this short blog post I’ll explain how to fetch JSON metrics from the Docker registry API to track some data of a DockerHub Repository.