Infrastructure
The server infrastructure category covers all articles related to physical and virtual resources that support the management of servers in an IT environment. Specifically, these articles will be aimed at a Proxmox Virtual Environment cluster on dedicated servers at Hetzner.
Monitoring tools, such as Prometheus, Loki, Grafana and GoAccess will be included in this category, as well as applications run inside virtual machines and containers to provide Internet services, such as Tinyproxy, and database servers, such as PostgreSQL.
2026
Configuring Zsh on a new laptop for DevOps
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How to configure the Z shell with Oh My Zsh, fzf, Starship, and zsh-patina on Linux.
2025
Gathering system and hardware metrics with Node Exporter
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Collect system and hardware metric data as using Prometheus Node Exporter
Gathering process metrics with Process Exporter
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Collect process metric data as using Prometheus Process Exporter
Using Grafana Alerting to detect and notify issues
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Create, manage and respond to alert rules based on metrics and logs from multiple data sources
Gathering cluster-wide metrics with Proxmox VE Exporter
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Collect metric data from the cluster, its nodes and all its guests using PVE Exporter.
2024
Storing log data with Loki
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Install and configure a Loki server to receive and store logs sent with Promtail
Retrieving metrics from Prometheus using PromQL
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Use the Prometheus Query Language to query the Prometheus database.
Storing metric data with Prometheus
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Collect and store metric data using Prometheus.
Monitoring your Proxmox cluster with Grafana
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Collect, store and visualise metrics and logs using Grafana, Prometheus and Loki.