CheckMk: Upgrade CheckMk using Docker Compose
This is about how to update or upgrade CheckMk inside a Docker container.
Topic
docker-compose
A collection of 25 issues
Grafana: Using Telegraf and Grafana for Linux monitoring
If you use Telegraf to extract metrics from your systems, and you write them to InfluxDB, you can use Grafana to visualize the data we collected before.
Configure InfluxDB as data source
To use the data from within Grafana, we have to create a data source.
Go to Connections and
MongoDB: Use Docker Compose for MongoDB
This is how to use Docker Compose to configure and start a container using MongoDB community server
TimescaleDB: Use Docker Compose for TimescaleDB
This time, I'm showing how to use Docker Compose to run TimescaleDB
CheckMk: Use Docker Compose for CheckMk
CheckMk is a great tool for monitoring. It's quite easy to deploy, and it offers support for monitoring a big range of hardware and software solutions - either through plugins, or out of the box.
To create a CheckMk container, you can use this docker-compose.yml:
services:
checkmk:
InfluxDB: Using Docker Compose for InfluxDB
InfluxDB is a "time series database developed by the company InfluxData. It is used for storage and retrieval of time series data in fields such as operations monitoring, application metrics, Internet of Things sensor data, and real-time analytics."
Besides installing InfluxDB on a server, or rent the service
Grafana: Use Docker Compose for Grafana
Grafana is a great tool: "Query, visualize, alert on, and understand your data no matter where it’s stored. With Grafana you can create, explore, and share all of your data through beautiful, flexible dashboards."
In a modern production environment, I'd have a highly available system
Informix: Using Docker Compose for Informix
Many years ago, at the beginning of my IT carreer, I was a member of the software support (and hotline) for an ERP software. The main database system was (and still is) Oracle, but we supported also Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB/2 and Informix.
I liked Informix, because it
Oracle: Use Docker Compose for Oracle Autonomous Database
Oracle Autonomous Database is "an easy-to-use, fully autonomous database that scales elastically and delivers fast query performance. As a service, Autonomous Database does not require database administration."
You can use Oracle Autonomous Database in Oracle Cloud. But if you don't have that, or you prefer to
DB/2: Using Docker Compose for IBM DB/2
Many years ago, at the beginning of my IT carreer, I was a member of the software support (and hotline) for an ERP software. The main database system was (and still is) Oracle, but we supported also Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB/2 and Informix.
DB/2 was always a