RE: https://en.osm.town/@mdione/116239489362801981

OK, the push for AI is official. I'm definitely open for new positions.

I'm a jack of all trades, systems dev and admin, #Linux, #Python, #postgres, #ansible, #prometheus, #grafana, security conscious, I like to review code, and for my hobbies I do some #GIS and would like to do more.

Check my CV https://www.grulic.org.ar/~mdione/

and my blog https://www.grulic.org.ar/~mdione/glob/ (not a typo)

for more details.

#GetFediHired

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Marcos Dione » 🌐 2026-03-16 / 2026-03-27
@mdione@en.osm.town

I have been suggested that the company I'm working is not doing well. Than and a push for AI is telling me it's maybe time to move on.

What am I? Currently I'm doing #Python, #SysAdmin, GitHub/GitLab admin (yes, both), some Kafka, used to do some Postgres (now we have a DB team), Ansible and more.

Edit: more info: https://en.osm.town/@mdione/116302423501761728

What do I want? No AI, no gambling, no blockchain. In #Marseille or remote. I can invoice abroad, but I would rather be an employee.

#FediHire #job

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The Prometheus instance in my homelab just blew up. I need to re boot the frozen host, quickly stop the service then reduce the retention again.

#prometheus #homelab #selfhosting

I'm using #mtail to parse my logs and export that as a local #prometheus exporter server.

I got into a panic, because suddenly loads of production machines were showing 0 accesses, even though I could see they were in use.

Looks like mtail was outputting “total number of requests” in scientific notation, causing prometheus to essentially see nothing... 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

`accesses_total{prog="parse.mtail"} 2.991904e+06`

@amapanda I was using #grok, but it's 6y unmaintained. To me #Loki is not an option, because when I tried to implement #awstats like stats in #prometheus (or loki) + grafana, the problem was the cardinality explosion based on path (even if you just bundle them by app or verb), or on client IP, or on user agent string (not that it makes any sense these days).

I'm thinking of writing a python script to export logs to a SQL db and use #grafana directly to do the queries against that.

RE: https://en.osm.town/@amapanda/116137039112062611

Any recommendations for how to turn my #logs into some #metrics that my #Prometheus server can injest? Some alternative to #mtail? (this problem aside, it looked like a dead project for a while)

#o11y

Ended up going for a combination of Victoria Metrics/Grafana/AlertManager and other tools that belong to that ecosystem. I've used prometheus often enough, but always found prometheus to be too chonky for my homelab setup, but VM promised less RAM use, and it delivered. So now I'm building grafana dashboards and much more advanced alerting/monitoring than Uptime Kuma could ever do. Bonus points for so many apps having prometheus stats endpoints, which means I now have dashboards for stuff like this GoToSocial instance and much more.

All in all, a much better setup than Uptime Kuma could bring, even if it is more complicated to setup.

@homelab #HomeLab #SelfHosted #Monitoring #Prometheus #VictoriaMetrics #UptimeKuma