Today we are on for a combination of Telegraf, InfluxDB and Grafana, and I want to get this to work because I am in preparation for a small IoT project of mine, and for simplicity sake I do not want to fiddle with the Raspberry,APIs and some MQTT set-up…I need to go step by step and I simply need an agent that would scrape my local machine statistics and send them on a dashboard. The part I am not sure of is the software piece in the middle between my source and my dashboard, namely here my time series database… And that’s how I came across these 3 applications. Let’s see… let’s get started.
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Some Cloud Security best practices
With cyber security continuously hitting the headlines I though I could share some of what I believe is to know when working in the cloud as an absolute minimum and for simple access, you will understand what I mean later, and also share what I learned fiddling with Cloud systems all day long. I shall divide the matter into two categories: the Cloud itself & the VMs.
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