Graphite is broken – long live graphite

The Graphite time-series database software is broken. The maintainers no longer have the will or the time to do what it takes to go forward. The project is stuck with feature creep and is being held back due to cruft. With a few swipes, it could become nimble again. Not …

Riemann for windows monitoring

  Riemmann as a general purpose monitoring system for Microsoft Windows Riemann is an up and coming event stream processor. It is …

OSSEC Tips and Quirks

OSSEC Tips and Quirks OSSEC is a pretty nifty tool to collect, parse and categorize events. Though it sometimes feels like a …

SANS 2013 Orlando Wrapup

Having just come back from the SANS 2013  Orlando security conference, I want to share some random thoughts. SANS Instructors and speakers are …

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genDevConfig on github

The most astute will have noticed genDevConfig moving to github. This means, you can easily add more devices, submit corrections and  improve this old …

genDevConfig migrating to Shinken/Nagios

genDevConfig is in the process of being converted to output in a Shinken/Nagios configuration format. Nagios does not have any true discovery frameworks that …

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SANS 2010 Orlando Wrapup

Having just come back from the SANS Institute Orlando security conference, I want to share some random thoughts. SANS Instructors and speakers are …