Uploads from lozzd, tagged lastfm

The Obama Curve: What an Inauguration does to your traffic - Streaming

nobody@flickr.com (lozzd) — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:06:52 -0800

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Numbers removed obviously, this is dip we suffered during Obama's Inauguration.

Last.fm powers New Years Celebrations

nobody@flickr.com (lozzd) — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 03:56:06 -0800

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A higher trend of people were listening yesterday, bringing the regular curve out of balance also with some amusing dips as different continents hit the 2010.

Rage vs X-Factor - Final Results

nobody@flickr.com (lozzd) — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 04:52:54 -0800

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Rage Against the Machine - "Killing in the Name" managed to beat the X-Factor to Christmas number 1 thanks to a Facebook campaign started by a husband and wife team.

Here are how the Last.fm scrobbles panned out over December.

The Obama Curve: What an Inauguration does to your traffic - Web Requests

nobody@flickr.com (lozzd) — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:06:53 -0800

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Numbers removed obviously, this is dip we suffered during Obama's Inauguration.

Last.fm Monitoring Station

nobody@flickr.com (lozzd) — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:04:10 -0800

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Four screens and a computer put to good use; some web traffic/time graphs on the left, our Network Weathermap next, another instance of CactiView modified for smaller resolution, and finally "dashboard", another Cacti aggregate written by Russ that displays all of the key graphs on one screen.

CactiView

nobody@flickr.com (lozzd) — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:04:12 -0800

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This is CactiView, a very simple PHP script that just continuously rotates through a certain set of graphs that we decide are important.

The big image is the last 12 hours, then in the top right downwards: Weekly, Monthly, and Yearly. In the bottom right I put the current time (UTC) and in EST. The header in the top right displays the current graph and the next graph in the sequence.

There are two of these screens in our office, and also two monitors that display our systems status from Nagios.

CactiView is now available for download from my blog: laurie.denness.net/blog/2009/12/cactiview/

Naglite2

nobody@flickr.com (lozzd) — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:40:37 -0800

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I always wanted our ops room to be one of those awesome places with screens hanging from the ceilings, like in Goldeneye or something.

At first, everyone thought it was a bit of a gimmicky idea, but I set about getting some useful stuff to put on them, namely one screen for our key Cacti graphs, and one for simplified Nagios details. Now we can't live without them. They're driven by a single machine with two outputs, and split using a couple of cheap VGA splitters.

In this photo you can see the result of the Nagios interface, "Naglite2". I took someone's old cold "Naglite" and managed to break it into working with the new Nagios data formats. After a few modifications, I am left with this, a simple view of what is going on with our hosts/services, so as soon as anything happens we examine the problem in more detail. It certainly helps keep your systems/Nagios clean when you have nagging flashing (yes the CRITICAL flashes..) infront of your eyes.

So i got my dream, we have 4x 22" monitors hanging from the ceiling of our small office; two of each Naglite2, and another home written piece of software, CactiView.