$ cd ~/posts/2013/

• Igal

  A memorial for Igal Koshevoy and a plea to check in on people in our community who may be struggling with their mental health

  April 11, 2013 · 3 min read · #igalko #suicide #Igal
• Puppet and OpsGenie

  Releasing a Puppet report processor that pushes notifications of failed runs to Opsgenie using a customer API key and recipient list

  March 2, 2013 · 1 min read · #Puppet #OpsGenie
• Puppet and StatHat

  Releasing a Puppet report processor that ships per-host metrics like changed resources and config retrieval time to StatHat

  February 11, 2013 · 1 min read · #Puppet #StatHat
• The LogStash Book released!

  Announcing the release of a book on deploying log management with LogStash, available as PDF, ePub, or Kindle edition

  February 3, 2013 · 1 min read · #logstash #devops #sysadmin
• Monitoring Sucks - A Rant

  Why Nagios and its kin fail virtualised and cloud environments, and why a fresh paradigm is needed to handle the new scale

  January 28, 2013 · 4 min read · #monitoringsucks #nagios #devops
• The LogStash Book sample chapter available

  A free sample chapter is now available covering how to get logs into LogStash without using the LogStash agent

  January 21, 2013 · 1 min read · #logstash #devops #sysadmin
• Lessons From Self Publishing

  Multi-part series on lessons from self publishing

  January 11, 2013 · 1 min read · #self-publishing #books #apress