Gregory's ServerAdded some new Mastodon monitoring infrastructure for discuss.systems.
Sure, every good #MastoAdmin has a cool Grafana dashboard, but we're going a bit more old school here...
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    @hazelweakly @quintessence @nova Hey, I'm in Seattle and I've got extras of all the parts you need to make a MQTT to 100V exporter... just add antique meter... @dan Now I want to find my old exposure meter with the CdSe sensor. This is just brilliant. This is an antique Weston voltmeter that I accidentally* bought at auction from a telephone museum that was closing down a few years ago. (I also got some cool historical transatlantic cable segments!) It draws a surprising amount of current for a voltmeter, so the circuit that's controlling uses far more power than I was anticipating. *ok, it wasn't _really_ an accident! I certainly wasn't complaining... @anttipeltola The latest patent date on that meter is 1901, I think that makes it Web 0.1!  @agentydragon @dan this ^ Also, maybe the minute load averages from /proc/loadavg are more useful than instant CPU usage.  That beats a dashboard any day! Might make writing my system Performance reports more interesting ๐ @dan almost #steampunk in presence? This might even start a trend in computer display / hardware (which might be pretty nice...) Looks great! Go techno retro like Loki style, then you get the added bonus of Miss Minutes :D @shmouflon hmmm. now i'm wondering if you have a good cheap SDR setup you could tune into their radio frequencies? ๐ @shmouflon like, not for broadcast but just measuring the amount of traffic on their frequencies.  @dan given how ActivityPub functions, setting up a CPU usage meter that caps at 80 seems pretty optimistic :D   @dan Very cool. Back in the day, the IBM System 370/168 had an analog CPU utilization meter on its monster 3066 operator console. But it wasnโt nearly as fancy and pretty as the one you have.  |
@dan love it :D