Building a status page is one of those tasks which seems to forever linger on the to-do list of so many small organizations (and some large too). Despite paid services such as status.io and statuspage.io both offering plans starting at $29/mo (which admittedly most would consider reasonable)…
This post is essentially an updated guide to my previous post on monitoring pfSense logs using the ELK stack. Part 1 will cover the instillation and configuration of ELK and Part 2 will cover configuring Kibana 4 to visualize pfSense logs. So what's new? Full guide to installing & setting…
Introduction Exchange 2013 maintains a detailed record of messages sent between the transport services within an Exchange organization via message tracking logs. The default location for these logs is; C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\TransportRoles\Logs\MessageTracking. Exchange generates 3 main log files (there is a 4th, but…
Scroll to the bottom for the update on applying this tutorial to the new pfSense 2.2 log format What is pfSense? Only the best open source, software based firewall there is (I'm biased). I use it a lot, especially in virtualized environments. https://www.pfsense.org/ What is ELK?…
Originally created by Phil Matthews almost 5 years ago, this set of payment icons is still my favourite: I needed a 'bitcoin' payment icon to match this set for a project I'm working on, so decided to create one.  Once I…