Prometheus

TL;DR Monitor borgmatic with Prometheus textfiles Setup and History If you run infrastructure, you should have backups. Backups are only useful if they are tested and monitored. Part of my strategy to prevent “Schrödinger’s Backup” is tight monitoring and alarming. In the early days, I had borgbackup running with Icinga. Later, I switched to Prometheus, with a textfile created by a custom bash script. Right now, I’m cleaning things up in my infrastructure, and switching to borgmatic....

TL:DR Monitor your apt-based packages with Prometheus. Project on GitHub Project on PyPi Why do we need to monitor software packages? When you are operating a larger amount of servers, VMs or containers, you need to keep the software on them up-to-date, at least for security reasons. You most probably won’t do this manually, but use helper systems like unattended upgrades on Debian/apt-based systems. But, as always, something automated may or may not happen when not observed actively....