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Update: the latest revision of Observium now supports slack notifications (as well as a few other services)! You can add a slack channel in a contact with the format channel::#channel-name||username::username||url::webhookapi-url-for-slack and associate it as usual.…

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Posted in: chatops

I’ve long been fascinated by the power of automation, but even more fascinated with being lazy AND utilizing heavy automation. A few years ago, I watched a presentation from Jesse Newland at Github about their…

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I got pretty sick of having to constantly remember to put “:9000” to reach my Graylog web interface, and didn’t really want to mess around with adding SSL support into graylog itself. The solution? Run…

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Assuming Ubuntu 14.04 “Trusty” as the OS here… this should probably work on Debian 8 with just a change on the Mongo repo. First, install puppet if you haven’t already. sudo apt-get update && sudo…

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