@ktsaou said in netdata 1.5 released - big update!:

netdata and prometheus are quite different. They can actually cooperate: netdata exposes all its metrics in a prometheus compatible format, so that prometheus can use netdata as a data collector.

In general, prometheus is a time-series database with an embedded scraper. For sources it cannot scrape itself it uses other data collectors (including netdata).

netdata is a real-time performance monitoring. The detail and amount of information netdata provides is probably too much for prometheus. Also netdata is distributed (you install it everywhere), while prometheus is centralized.

There is no good and bad in these things. Different things for different needs.

So, use the solution that suits you best...

Right. I didn't mean they were the same under the hood. I mean they are both "exposed" in the same way.

@dafyre said in KVM Guests Backup - CentOS7:

@aaronstuder said in KVM Guests Backup - CentOS7:

@dafyre I need to learn a config management package.... suggestions?

I'll have to defer to others for that one, lol.

Salt and Ansible seem to be the most interesting. We are getting into Salt, here. Chef is decent.

I ended up using this guide:

https://www.rootusers.com/how-to-increase-the-size-of-a-linux-lvm-by-expanding-the-virtual-machine-disk/

@scottalanmiller said in I moved to Linux!:

@Francesco-Provino said in I moved to Linux!:

@scottalanmiller said in I moved to Linux!:

@Francesco-Provino said in I moved to Linux!:

@stacksofplates I don't think anything you wrote about KVM is true, and it never was true also. I don't think I'm biased towards KVM in any way, I use more vSphere and XS hosts than KVM ones as of today, but… KVM and the standard toolstack has everything. At least, anything apart from some very new and particular GPU or latency-related stuff that only ESXi and customized (AWS!) Xen have. But of course, the basic and advanced stuff are absolutely covered. Every single thing.

He's talking about Boxes, not KVM.

Oh, ok, now it makes sense! Never heard about Boxes… libvirt is really anything you need for KVM. Maybe virt-manager, if you are used to XenCenter-like administration…

Boxes is a VERY nascent KVM front end. I'm playing with it right now, it's neat that it uses KVM with local console redirect. But it needs some polishing, the interface is awkward and missing a lot of basic features.

Ya it's weird. Virt-Manager gives you 1000% more and you can get console output from virsh, so I never saw the draw to it.

You definitely do not have to move everything. If you want to clean it up, you can, but I would not waste time doing it.

try this reading

@aaronstuder said in LINUX 5 FOR $25 BUNDLES:

@scottalanmiller How do they compare to O'Reilly?

Not as good, but decent. O'Reilly is pretty good in general.

@scottalanmiller This is about the closest you get to a GUI

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@nadnerB said in Test:

@DustinB3403 said in Test:

@RojoLoco said in Test:

Testes... testes.. 1... 2.... 3?

With 3 you'd better get tested....

If he's Krogan, then he's missing one

I could say something really mean but I'll let that one go... 😛

Aww, yeah that makes sense.

I keep getting stuck on the fact that a single (or RAID 1) drive (winchester) itself is so slow, so easy to saturate its throughput that is almost seems useless today. Of course this could be expanded out to then say, well if RAID 1 is useless, then RAID 5, 6, etc are even more so.
Please don't take that to be me saying RAID 1 is useless, of course it's not. Using RAID 1 for work loads that don't need a ton of storage or throughput, RAID 1 is great.

@scottalanmiller said in Elastix 5 Dials 3CX for its Telephony Engine:

And PIAF was the goofy "build it yourself" version of FreePBX. Just silly. Why build it yourself and have things go wrong when FreePBX was totally free and open and did it all for you and had the ability to update, get support, has a community, etc.?

One point of note here @scottalanmiller PBX in a Flash existed a long time before FreePBX was a distro of its own. But yes, once FreePBX existed as a distro, there was never any other reason to do anything else.

@Danp said in DirectvNow:

@brianlittlejohn Sling is supposed to be beta testing their cloud DVR product starting this month on Roku devices. From what I read, they will eventually expand it to include other devices.

Huh... if it's anything like Playstation Vue on Roku vs PS Vue on Amazon Fire TV, don't expect much.

@LG-at-ConnectWise said in ConnectWise Control (ScreenConnect) Free:

Gotcha! This would require a service ticket - once you enter that, send me the ticket number and I can follow up and make sure it is addressed quickly.

Support has been on it and I tagged you in the thread with details.

@scottalanmiller Plain

Very interesting, will check that out.

This is an amazing deal and well worth the bump.

@wrx7m said in Anyone using storj.io?:

That reminds me of a similar tech but within the LAN. Some sort of distributed storage across clients and servers. I can't remember the name... argh.

ÆtherStore - https://aetherstore.com/

@Dashrender said in Identifying CAT 6 Connections:

LOL I was looking for the timestamp on the post he quoted...
was thinking that was long before his account was banned.

Yeah, he didn't leave until pretty late yesterday.

@aaronstuder said in EDGE E3 SSD Drives:

My boss will be talking to the Directory of Sales today.....

Any update?

@dafyre said in PlutoTV:

@RojoLoco said in PlutoTV:

@IRJ said in PlutoTV:

@RojoLoco said in PlutoTV:

@IRJ said in PlutoTV:

@RojoLoco said in PlutoTV:

@gjacobse said in PlutoTV:

@IRJ said in PlutoTV:

Is it free with Ads? I don't see anything about pricing.

Netflix should have created channels like this years ago using content they already have paid to use. There is no reason there shouldn't be comedy tv, comedy movie channel, and etc that runs 24/7. They have enough content to create channels to do this.

I didn't see any pricing either.. I see / hear enough ads. don't want any more.

I'll be testing this from a windows machine inside a browser, so ads will get the opportunity to eat several dicks as they are being blocked. I'll try to remember to post my findings later, as I am about to head home for the day.

So what did you think?

It runs as an app in Windows... and it's crappy. I tried to watch MST3K for about a half hour, and the audio was slightly out of sync, the streaming quality was terrible, and when it "went to commercial", it just showed a black screen w/ some text at the bottom - something like "we'll return you to your program after these sponsor announcements". Then the stream got stuck, all the controls froze, so I killed it tin task manager and watched some Netflix instead. 2/10, would not recommend.

So not even worth free, huh?

Not really. If the app was more stable and/or usable, then maybe as a supplement to other streaming services. I did like the fact that there is no signup, just download and go.

I may give it a go if there's a Roku app for it.

There is. I may try it on my Amazon fire stick, because it will hopefully be easier to scroll the channel menu with a remote. That was kinda clunky on PC.