Subj : Monitoring BBS logs
To   : Mike Miller
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Thu Feb 01 2024 01:03 pm

  Re: Monitoring BBS logs
  By: Mike Miller to Dan Clough on Thu Feb 01 2024 02:26 pm

 > I do have another dashboard that I'm working on. It has number of
 > connections over time, number of connections by IP address, and a few other
 > things.
 >
 >
 > doing this via logs is not all that efficient, though. At some point I'll
 > likely create some kind of prometheus exporter to just scrape data, rather
 > than forcing grafana to parse its entire history of logs (only 48 hours
 > worth on the free tier) to display data.
 >
 > Grafana will, however, allow you to set up alerts based on triggers,  such
 > as a specific line in a log file.  SBBS choked on me in a weird way the
 > other day, for the first time in forever, so I may set it up to send an
 > alert to my phone if something like that happens again.  I didn't catch it,
 > and the board was down for more than a day.

This sounds like a good use for MQTT:
https://wiki.synchro.net/ref:mqtt
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