Freifunk on Benjamin Brahmer

Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana

Sun, 16 May 2021 14:02:00 +0200

I’m part for a local Freifunk community and because of that I’m partially responsible for quite a lot of infrastructure.

Recently we moved a new service into the responsibility of our admin group. The migration was mainly done an prepared by me.

The service was Freitrix, which is a Matrix homeserver, if you don’t know Matrix yet, check it out matrix.org.

While I created the new setup from scratch, I learned that Synapse,the software we use as a homeserver supports Prometheus.

Freifunk Südholstein

Wed, 09 Dec 2020 14:59:22 +0100

Freifunk Südholstein is a Freifunk community located in the south-east of Hamburg. Since it was founded in 2015 this initiative has built an open network with roughly 200+ nodes.

Originally I started as a normal node operator, so I had my own Freifunk node and actively attended the monthly meetings but I didn’t have any tasks. When the firmware building process which was back then fully manual, slowed down I decided to step in and learned about building the firmware, testing it and how to contribute to the configuration.