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📡 Full-Stack Observability
✅ System Precision
💡 Strategic Insights

Make every system call the right call.
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#NBAPlayoffs #Observability #AspectIQ #Telemetry

🏀 Game time! Win every tip-off — not just on the court, but in your stack.
📡 Full-Stack Observability
✅ System Precision
💡 Strategic Insights

Make every system call the right call.
📍 aspectiqops.com
#NBAPlayoffs #Observability #AspectIQ #Telemetry

You may have heard the term “three pillars of #observability” - metrics, logs, traces (and sometimes profiles as pillar four.) But how do you use thousands of datapoints to get to root cause analysis?

Learn how #opensource software can reduce hours of troubleshooting down to seconds with tips from #Coroot CEO Nikolay Sivko: https://t.ly/K5Q17

#kubernetes #SRE #DevOps #tech #IT #databases #SLO #telemetry #RCA #AI

I want (privacy concious) telemetry on linux! Please!

#linux #privacy #telemetry

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#Observability #DevOps #MTTR #Telemetry #AspectIQ

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#Telemetry #OpenTelemetry #DevOps #Observability #AspectIQ

@neil even better: @torproject / #TorBrowser as default #Browser, as it does 0 #metrics & #telemetry without explicit opt-in!

Chrome is out here phoning home like it owes someone money.

I broke down the most private browsers of 2025 — LibreWolf, Mullvad, Brave, and more. Plus, how to sniff out sneaky telemetry with Wireshark & Little Snitch.

https://sebastiangogola.me/the-most-private-browsers-in-2025-comparing-librewolf-mullvad-brave-more/#how-to-verify-telemetry-traffic-wireshark-little-snitch

#Privacy #LibreWolf #MullvadBrowser #Telemetry #Wireshark #Infosec #SebastianGogola

🛠️ Title: VSCodium
🦊️ What's: A libre IDE
🏡️ https://vscodium.com
🐣️ https://github.com/VSCodium
🔖 #LinuxGameDev #Flagship #Programming #IDE #Telemetry
📦️ #Libre #Bin #Arch #RPM #Deb #Flatpak #AppIm #Snap
📖 Our entry: https://lebottinlinux.vps.a-lec.org/LO.html

👹️ Telemetry: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/issues/1322

🥁️ Update: (vsc 1.99.3)➜1.100.03093 (=vsc 1.100.0)
⚗️ Major release (Stable) 🍎️
📌️ Changes: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/releases
🦣️ From: 🛜️ https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/releases.atom

🦝️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/P8accXNcwjs?start=633
🕯️https://www.youtube.com/embed/?list=PLjCGSCBfSFa9jbjQuGCtJ3Ncl3Xyr8Mn_
🐧https://www.youtube.com/embed/jtK-prBAyPo

🕶️ A view of its user interface in a dark theme, with code editing on the right showing syntax highlighting, suggestions when entering code and code structuring in nested levels, the current project tree on the left, and the editor menus at the top and far left.

📚️ VSCodium is a telemetry-free fork (VSCodium=publishing Visual Studio Code binaries with "almost" no telemetry) of Visual Studio Code, the Microsoft libre, multi-platform code editor, combining the simplicity of a code editor with what developers need for their edit, build and debug cycle, and leaving more complex workflows to more comprehensive IDEs, such as Visual Studio IDE. It offers full support for editing, browsing and understanding code, as well as lightweight debugging, a rich extensibility model and lightweight integration with existing tools.

🛠️ Title: Code-OSS (Visual Studio Code)
🦊️ What's: A libre IDE
🏡️ https://code.visualstudio.com
🐣️ https://github.com/microsoft/vscode
🔖 #LinuxGameDev #Flagship #Programming #IDE #Telemetry
📦️ #Libre #Bin #Arch #RPM #Deb #Flatpak #AppIm #Snap
📖 Our entry: https://lebottinlinux.vps.a-lec.org/LO.html

🥁️ Update: 1.99.1➜1.100.0
⚗️ Major release (Stable) 🍎️
📌️ Changes: https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/
🦣️ From: 🛜️ https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/releases.atom

🦝️https://www.youtube.com/embed/KMxo3T_MTvY
🦝️[fr] https://www.youtube.com/embed/t_-6ECeFf_0
🕯️https://www.youtube.com/embed/Yi1iIM-B7XQ
🕯️https://www.youtube.com/embed/B-s71n0dHUk

🕶️ A view of its UI with on the top right part the code editing showing syntax highlighting, suggestions when entering code, and structuring of the code in nested levels, underneath a message area showing the successful compilation of the current code, on the left an area showing a wide range of extensions for language support, debugging and other tools, and on the very top as well as on the far left the editor's menus.

📚️ Code-OSS (Visual Studio Code) is a libre, multi-platform code editor that combines the simplicity of a code editor with what developers need for their editing, building, and debugging cycle, and leaves more complex workflows to more comprehensive IDEs, such as the Visual Studio IDE. It offers full support for editing, navigating and understanding code, as well as lightweight debugging, a rich extensibility model and lightweight integration with existing tools. Visual Studio Code is a distribution of the Code - OSS repository with Microsoft-specific customizations released under a traditional Microsoft product license.

LibreWolf is now in my Slackware repository

Resulting from a request in one of my other blog pages, I have added a Slackware (15.0 and -current, 32bit as well as 64bit) package for LibreWolf.

The LibreWolf version number "137.0.2-1" is a combination of the version of Firefox on which the release is based, and the release iteration of

https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/librewolf-is-now-in-my-slackware-repository/

#Slackware #Software #community #drm #firefox #privacy #security #telemetry

@leniwcowaty @Waterfox Fwiw:

// droppie 17/4/25: Multiple times over recent days, to my displeasure, i've found that the 2x-daily Nightly updates kept re-enabling all the telemetry options in `about:preferences#privacy`. Ok then, i'll play hard-ball, by now forcing them all off, per these ex https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yokoffing/Betterfox/main/user.js:
/** TELEMETRY ***/
user_pref("datareporting.policy.dataSubmissionEnabled", false);
user_pref("datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled", false);
/* user_pref("toolkit.telemetry.unified", false); */   //droppie 18/4/25: Perversely this one actually Enables Telemetry, per `about:telemetry#`, if set to True. 
user_pref("toolkit.telemetry.enabled", false);
user_pref("toolkit.telemetry.server", "data:,");
user_pref("toolkit.telemetry.archive.enabled", false);
user_pref("toolkit.telemetry.newProfilePing.enabled", false);
user_pref("toolkit.telemetry.shutdownPingSender.enabled", false);
user_pref("toolkit.telemetry.updatePing.enabled", false);
user_pref("toolkit.telemetry.bhrPing.enabled", false);
user_pref("toolkit.telemetry.firstShutdownPing.enabled", false);
user_pref("toolkit.telemetry.coverage.opt-out", true);
user_pref("toolkit.coverage.opt-out", true);
user_pref("toolkit.coverage.endpoint.base", "");
user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.telemetry", false);
user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.telemetry", false);
/** EXPERIMENTS ***/
user_pref("app.shield.optoutstudies.enabled", false);
user_pref("app.normandy.enabled", false);
user_pref("app.normandy.api_url", "");
/** CRASH REPORTS ***/
user_pref("breakpad.reportURL", "");
user_pref("browser.tabs.crashReporting.sendReport", false);
/** DETECTION ***/
user_pref("captivedetect.canonicalURL", "");
user_pref("network.captive-portal-service.enabled", false);
user_pref("network.connectivity-service.enabled", false);

#Firefox #telemetry #AboutConfig #userJS

Q: So, anything new? What'd you do today?

A: Oh, dug through menus in a new AV receiver to find its MAC addresses, configured my network DHCP server to give it a static address, and then wrote some iptables rules to keep that address from being able to reach outside the LAN. Pretty standard stuff.

Looking for a "DO NOT CONNECT THIS MACHINE TO THE INTERNET NO MATTER HOW MUCH IT NAGS" warning sign to print out.

#dystopia #spying #telemetry #connected #SmartDevice #AV #AVR #receiver #HomeTheatre #firewall

After #Firefox enabled #Sponsored Shortcuts and #telemetry AGAIN by itself I got *a bit* annoyed. Like I get it, they need to make money somehow, and gather some data. But if I opt out, then I opt out, and don't think about it anymore.
So trying out #Waterfox. Really nothing fancy, Firefox ESR but with this stuff turned off and some privacy-focused tweaks enabled by default. And it has an #android version (not ERS though).
So far really content with it. Keep up the good work, @Waterfox 💪

#F1 #telemetry

https://f1.hostux.net

A split-screen view of a Formula 1 qualifying session. The top half shows a live telemetry dashboard with lap times, sector data, tire compounds, and a track map. The track map highlights current car positions and includes sector timings. The timing screen lists each driver's best lap time, current tire choice (mostly soft compounds), and whether they are on an out lap, flying lap, or in the pits.

The bottom half shows a live TV broadcast of the qualifying session on SPORT DIRECT. A pink and black Formula 1 car, possibly an Alpine or similar livery, is exiting a corner close to the edge of the track. On-screen graphics show real-time sector times for drivers Doohan, Hadjar, and Lawson, with Hadjar +0.587s off the reference and Lawson -0.245s ahead.

The left side leaderboard shows Lando Norris (NOR) in first place with a 1:27.805 lap time, followed closely by Piastri, Verstappen, and Albon.

🛠️ Title: VSCodium
🦊️ What's: A libre IDE
🏡️ https://vscodium.com
🐣️https://github.com/VSCodium
🔖 #LinuxGameDev #Flagship #Programming #IDE #Telemetry
📦️ #Libre #Bin #Arch #RPM #Deb #Flatpak #AppIm #Snap
📖Our entry: https://lebottinlinux.vps.a-lec.org/LO.html

👹️ Telemetry: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/issues/1322

🥁️Update: 1.99.02289 (=vsc 1.99.0)➜1.99.32562 (=vsc 1.99.3)
⚗️Major release (Stable) 🍎️
📌️Changes: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/releases
🦣️From: 🛜️ https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/releases.atom

🦝️https://www.youtube.com/embed/P8accXNcwjs?start=633
🕯️https://www.youtube.com/embed/?list=PLjCGSCBfSFa9jbjQuGCtJ3Ncl3Xyr8Mn_
🐧https://www.youtube.com/embed/jtK-prBAyPo

Observability doesn't end at telemetry: you can find and fix service anomalies faster with #opensource.

Automatically capture data with eBPF and simplify analysis with 1-click application profiling, detailed incident timeframes, and a service map to understand your system at-a-glance.

Give it a spin for yourself: https://t.ly/OhlXB

#kubernetes #docker #DevOps #SRE #telemetry #observability #Coroot #aws #FOSS

Your logs are lying to you - metrics are meaner and better.

Everyone loves logs… until the incident postmortem reads like bad fan fiction.
Most teams start with expensive log aggregation, full-text searching their way into oblivion. So much noise. So little signal. And still, no clue what actually happened. Why? Because writing meaningful logs is a lost art.
Logs are like candles, nice for mood lighting, useless in a house fire.

If you need traces to understand your system, congratulations: you're already in hell.

Let me introduce my favourite method: real-time, metric-driven user simulation aka "Overwatch".

Here's how you do it:

🧪 Set up a service that runs real end-to-end user workflows 24/7. Use Cypress, Playwright, Selenium… your poison of choice.
📊 Every action creates a timed metric tagged with the user workflow and action.
🧠 Now you know exactly what a user did before everything went up in flames.

Use Grafana + InfluxDB (or other tools you already use) to build dashboards that actually tell stories:

* How fast are user workflows?
* Which steps are breaking, and how often?
* What's slower today than yesterday?
* Who's affected, and where?

🎯 Alerts now mean something.
🚨 Incidents become surgical strikes, not scavenger hunts.
⚙️ Bonus: run the same system on every test environment and detect regressions before deployment. And if you made it reusable, you can even run the service to do load tests.

No need to buy overpriced tools. Just build a small service like you already do, except this one might save your soul.

And yes, transform logs into metrics where possible. Just hash your PII data and move on.

Stop guessing. Start observing.
Metrics > Logs. Always.

#Observability #MetricsOverLogs #DevOps #SRE #IncidentResponse #RealUserMonitoring #Telemetry #Grafana #InfluxDB #Automation #Cypress #Playwright #Selenium #DashboardsThatMatter #BurnYourLogs #MonitoringMadness #SystemDesign #PostmortemPoetry

Is there an on-premise, open source option for a monitoring/telemetry platform comparable* to say New Relic or Dynatrace with an approachable query language?

Is Prometheus+Grafana pretty much it?

Simpler the better, approachable for a casual user (i.e. curious non-technical tenants) would be great.

* Caveats for "comparable" apply!

#Linux #RunBSD #telemetry #OpenTelemetry #NewRelic #Dynatrace #Datadog #PlatformMonitoring #Monitoring #DevOps #HomeLab #soho #infrastructure #Network #CloudNative #CNI #FOSS #FLOSS #prometheus #grafana #zabbix #icinga #nagios

Simplify debugging with Deno and @opentelemetry
✅ logs associated with requests
✅ immediate traces and metrics
✅ works on Node.js backends
without any additional code or config ✨

https://deno.com/blog/zero-config-debugging-deno-opentelemetry

#deno #opentelemetry #nodejs #Observability #telemetry

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