3 posts authored by “Matthew McGinn”

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Device diagnostics are now open-source!

Following our announcement earlier this year, where we unveiled the new experimental diagnostics features, today we are happy to announce that on-device diagnostics are now also open-source. In addition to helping us solicit feedback more effectively, one of the main reasons for doing this is to offer our users even more transparency in terms of what occurs on-device. What changed? Based on the…

November 09, 2019 / 1 min

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Monitoring the edge with Prometheus pt. 1

A method of self-similar monitoring for the edge. Properly monitoring a fleet of devices is an evolving art. One of the current leaders in the server world for application and hardware monitoring is Prometheus, both for bare metal and as a first-class citizen in the Kubernetes world. In order to reduce the friction between the edge and the cloud, this project will deploy a Prometheus stack to…

May 06, 2019 / 8 min

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Experimental device diagnostics features now available!

Today, we are happy to announce that we are making our internal diagnostics tooling available to balena users. The tools will be accessible by all application Owners as well as Developers. These diagnostics tools contain much of the accumulated knowledge of pathologies and issues that often arise on devices deployed in the wild. We are planning to open-source the underlying scripts shortly, but…

March 28, 2019 / 2 min