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Use Grafana Alloy with SigLens

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Until now I used vector.dev as my workhorse to collect logs and metrics from systems and deliver them to SigLens. In the mean time there is a new kid on the block: Grafana Alloy. In this article I will show you how you connect Grafana Alloy to your SigLens instance.

Phishing detection with LLM

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In a recent project I tried to automate the phishing handling process. So if an email is reported as suspicious from end user the email is sent to a sandbox for a verdict and guess what: The sandbox mostly comes to the conclusion that the email is safe. But: IT IS NOT!

Use Prometheus Node Exporter with SigLens and Vector.dev

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Some days ago I discovered SigLens the first time and wrote a blog post about feeding logs into it with the help of Vector.dev. SigLens does not only provide fast log management - no; it also supports metrics. In this article I show you how to setup ingestion of metrics from Prometheus Node Exporters.

Fast log management with SigLens and Vector.dev

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A new star is born and my new personal favorite if you have to deal with logs: The Log Management solution from https://siglens.com/ together with https://vector.dev/ for log ingestion. This article describes the basic setup and the state of the project per may 2024.

Open port to Custom VM in Oracle Cloud

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Oracle is a nice cloud provider which provides some resources for free. That’s perfect if you want to experiment with some web services. But unfortunatly accessing them is not an easy task if you are a beginner in this environment. I will show you what you have to do to get access to your VM (beside of SSH).