/sebostechnology/Sebos TechnologyA minimal, responsive and feature-rich Jekyll theme for technical writing. 2026-04-05T11:47:24-06:00 Richard Chamberlain /sebostechnology/ Jekyll © 2026 Richard Chamberlain /sebostechnology/assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /sebostechnology/assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png Grafana Log Dashboards — From Fleet Overview to Per-Host Detail2026-04-05T04:00:00-06:00 2026-04-05T04:00:00-06:00 /sebostechnology/posts/Linux-Log-Dashboards/ Richard Chamberlain “Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine.” — Peter Sondergaard 📬 The Inbox That Never Gets Checked I have worked at a few companies that used email notifications as the primary way to monitor for system issues. It normally starts out small — a few critical alerts when a server goes down. Then it grows. Months later, you are getting notifications t... Grafana Network Overview — Every Device, One Screen2026-03-29T04:00:00-06:00 2026-03-29T04:00:00-06:00 /sebostechnology/posts/Grafana-Network-Overview/ Richard Chamberlain “Security is not a product, but a process.” — Bruce Schneier 🐕 The Big Friendly Dog Problem Until recently, I lived in a small town on the prairies of Canada. Most nights, we didn’t lock our doors — not because we were careless, but because we had two dogs: a Boxer and a Great Pyrenees. Anyone thinking about walking into our house uninvited would have been immediately greeted by two large,... Grafana — The Single Pane of Glass2026-03-22T04:00:00-06:00 2026-03-22T04:00:00-06:00 /sebostechnology/posts/Grafana-The-Single-Pane-of-Glass/ Richard Chamberlain “The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” — Hans Hofmann 🧱 Building Without Seeing the Whole Picture I don’t remember playing with Lego as a kid, but I vividly remember watching my kids play with it. There’s something genuinely satisfying about watching a child sort through a bin of bricks and start building something without a plan. It s... OpenSCAP - Compliance Scanning for the Linux Corporate Desktop2026-03-07T23:00:00-06:00 2026-03-07T23:00:00-06:00 /sebostechnology/posts/OpenSCAP/ Richard Chamberlain “Security is not a product, but a process.” — Bruce Schneier I’ve sat through more compliance audits than I care to count. Back in the early days, an audit meant a person with a clipboard walking around the data center, manually verifying that servers were locked down according to a printed checklist. You’d spend days before the audit patching obvious gaps and writing up documentation, and ... Loki - From Naming Servers After Gods to Monitoring Them2026-03-01T04:00:00-06:00 2026-03-01T04:00:00-06:00 /sebostechnology/posts/Loki/ Richard Chamberlain “The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.” — Carly Fiorina When I started in IT over 40 years ago, one of the biggest points of contention around servers wasn’t about hardware specifications or performance. It wasn’t about which system was more powerful. It was about whether server hostnames should come from Greek mythology or Norse mythology. I’m not kidding...