This article was machine-translated from the Japanese version.
I gave a lightning talk at the online study group Infra Workshop.
The following is the cheat sheet and material used during the presentation; details were explained orally and are therefore omitted here.
Meaning of “Monitoring” here
Visually checking the update status of all media, including news, blogs, SNS, etc.
What I do for monitoring
I consolidate the operational foundation for visual checking into a single service and manage it
This provides the following benefits
- You can check only the information you want to see
- Unread/read management is easy
- No need to download apps or register favorites for each medium
Mechanism
[Apps, Web Services] –> [Zapier] - incoming webhook –> [Mattermost] – eyes –> [Unigiri]
Why Mattermost?
- Mostly just for fun
- Being OSS, you can read the source code, and if you’re dissatisfied with its behavior, you can request improvements
- Since it’s a chat tool hosted on your own server, you can easily post personal information (not very meaningful if the purpose is only monitoring)
Why Zapier?
It supports fetching Twitter tweets and posting to Mattermost
Monitoring items
- Blog
- Calender
- News (The Japan Times)
- Security News (CISA)
- Zabbix Alert