Configuring avahi-daemon on Raspberry Pi

01 Jun 2020 avahi raspberry-pi docker mdns

I’ve been having intermittent issues connecting to my Raspberry Pi using the local domain name `interwebs.local`. After the most recent issue, I decided to actually figure out the root cause...

GeoIP with MaxMind

25 May 2020 analytics goaccess geoip maxmind

We don’t get ip geolocation out of the box with GoAccess. But we can integrate MaxMind’s geoIP database to get location support in our analytics...

Docker monitoring with cAdvisor

18 May 2020 monitoring raspberry-pi cloud docker cadvisor prometheus grafana

In the last post we set up monitoring at the machine level, but we don’t get a good picture of what is happening inside docker. Let’s set up cAdvisor to get stats about each of the containers running in docker...

Server monitoring with node_exporter, Prometheus, and Grafana

11 May 2020 monitoring raspberry-pi cloud node-exporter prometheus grafana

Our servers are up, but are they healthy? We can set up a monitoring stack to answer that question using node_exporter, Prometheus, and Grafana...

Log analysis with GoAccess

04 May 2020 analytics nginx goaccess

Now that we’re serving data from our Rasberry Pi, let’s see if anyone is actually consuming that data by analyzing our web server logs...

Analytics - the tracking pixel

27 Apr 2020 analytics cdn cloudflare nginx

A CDN will reduce load on the backend server, but since traffic doesn’t hit our server we can’t get accurate analytics from the server logs. To mitigate this, we can add a tiny image to each page and tell the CDN not to cache it...