Prometheus on karl

Arris SB8200 Prometheus Exporter

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This is a very short “announcement” post.

To beef up my home-lab observability stack, I’ve been working on a few projects to expose more data to Prometheus. Getting metrics from my cable modem has been on the “todo” list for literally years. There have been various metric exporters written in the past but they have either been archived/deleted off of GitHub or are otherwise inappropriate for my needs. So, I wrote my own.

Monitoring APC AP7900 switched PDU with Prometheus and Grafana

Sun, 27 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The APC AP7900 is a 1U single phase PDU with 8 switchable outlets and a network interface. It’s been EoL’d and can be had for less than 20% of it’s original price on eBay. The network interface is so underpowered tha it can’t support any modern cryptographic ciphers.

So with that, here’s a revised copy of my notes from the process of getting the device reset, updated and monitored.