At $WORK I have been tasked with building a centralized logging infrastructure. After researching the available options I came across the following blog: edgeofsanity.net. The author is implementing centralized logging with Kibana and Logstash.
So I am following along, but since we only have 200 servers I am only building 2 servers, one to host Kibana and one running elasticsearch.
Filed under elasticsearch, linux, logstash, puppet, server
I just returned form our spring dive trip to Vortex Spring located in the panhandle of Florida.
We left at 7a last Thursday and total drive time was approximately 9 hours. We arrived at 4:30p, approximately 30 minutes before a major storm passed through. Most of us were able to get our tents setup before the rain started.
I attended the dive trip to get my Nitrox Certification (EANx). I performed five total training dives across a 48 hour period, including 1 night dive, all with 31.7% mix. I reached a depth of sixty feet, which was at the entrance to the cave and as far as I am certified to go since I do not have a cave certification. In case you are wondering, yes I passed.
It was a great weekend with some friend and we had a blast.
Filed under scuba
Springtime is upon us. I just finished planting a some fruit trees so we can have some jam and jelly in a few years.
Onto the next project: I want to clean up the area under our deck. Since the deck is at least 10 feet off the ground and difficult to mow with the riding mower, I plan to kill the grass and put down some ground cloth. I have not decided what I want to put down on the ground cloth, but I have it narrowed down to rubber mulch (made from recycled tires) or some type of rock/pebbles.
Mostly because I do not like using the trimmer under there and the dogs need a place to lay when they are outside.
Filed under projects
