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[2251.38 --> 2253.24] well I think the
[2253.24 --> 2254.04] obvious one for me is
[2254.04 --> 2254.68] something like health
[2254.68 --> 2256.52] checks dot IO so
[2256.52 --> 2258.12] what this does is when
[2258.12 --> 2259.80] you run a cron job you
[2259.80 --> 2261.12] append to the end of
[2261.12 --> 2263.12] your script or your
[2263.12 --> 2264.06] bash command that you're
[2264.06 --> 2266.00] putting into cron a
[2266.00 --> 2268.24] little curl with a uuid
[2268.24 --> 2270.26] in it so curl htps
[2270.26 --> 2273.32] url slash and then you
[2273.32 --> 2274.62] put your little uuid in
[2274.62 --> 2276.18] there and what that does
[2276.18 --> 2277.18] is it pings the health
[2277.18 --> 2278.40] check server and says
[2278.40 --> 2280.94] hey this this job just
[2280.94 --> 2282.08] ran and what you can then
[2282.08 --> 2283.54] do is configure timeouts
[2283.54 --> 2285.06] to say right I want
[2285.06 --> 2286.06] this job to run every
[2286.06 --> 2286.92] day and the grace
[2286.92 --> 2288.06] period is six hours
[2288.06 --> 2289.56] because sometimes a
[2289.56 --> 2291.46] backup can take six
[2291.46 --> 2292.92] hours to complete so
[2292.92 --> 2295.16] it reduces the noise
[2295.16 --> 2295.64] and the false
[2295.64 --> 2296.62] positives you might get
[2296.62 --> 2298.20] there sometimes but the
[2298.20 --> 2299.18] other really cool thing
[2299.18 --> 2300.46] you can do and some of
[2300.46 --> 2301.28] the guys in our discord
[2301.28 --> 2302.62] have been experimenting
[2302.62 --> 2303.78] with health checks a lot
[2303.78 --> 2304.74] of which there is a
[2304.74 --> 2305.90] self-hosted version by the
[2305.90 --> 2306.78] way as well don't be
[2306.78 --> 2307.70] confused and think it's
[2307.70 --> 2308.84] just a service it's not
[2308.84 --> 2311.36] what you can also do is
[2311.36 --> 2313.38] put a slash start at the
[2313.38 --> 2314.38] beginning of your script
[2314.38 --> 2315.80] to that same url with the
[2315.80 --> 2317.54] uuid as well and then
[2317.54 --> 2319.60] you can monitor how long
[2319.60 --> 2321.86] specific jobs take so you
[2321.86 --> 2323.90] can look and say oh my
[2323.90 --> 2326.00] backups on average take two
[2326.00 --> 2327.88] minutes 30 seconds this one
[2327.88 --> 2329.50] took four hours why is that
[2329.50 --> 2330.60] and then you can go and
[2330.60 --> 2332.32] look at the logs because you
[2332.32 --> 2333.94] can append logs to health
[2333.94 --> 2335.04] checks as well if you didn't
[2335.04 --> 2337.78] know that you can use curl to
[2337.78 --> 2339.84] do that as well so I mean
[2339.84 --> 2341.52] for me yes you could go and
[2341.52 --> 2342.98] you know reinvent the wheel
[2342.98 --> 2344.02] and have something that
[2344.02 --> 2345.54] does log passing and alert
[2345.54 --> 2346.90] manager with prometheus and
[2346.90 --> 2349.62] get as complex as you like
[2349.62 --> 2351.60] but really for me keep it
[2351.60 --> 2354.04] simple because if you don't
[2354.04 --> 2356.14] it'll just you just won't
[2356.14 --> 2357.30] keep on top of it if it's a
[2357.30 --> 2360.16] personal system yep yep and
[2360.16 --> 2361.42] if it's going to send you an
[2361.42 --> 2363.06] alert make sure it's sending
[2363.06 --> 2363.94] you an alert somewhere you're
[2363.94 --> 2365.66] actually checking and that
[2365.66 --> 2366.70] you won't just ignore that
[2366.70 --> 2367.80] doesn't just end up in some
[2367.80 --> 2369.76] folder on Gmail or something
[2369.76 --> 2371.44] like that all right well our
[2371.44 --> 2373.46] next email comes in from
[2373.46 --> 2375.92] Norm Norm writes in hey
[2375.92 --> 2376.98] guys love the show self
[2376.98 --> 2377.90] hosted alone is making me
[2377.90 --> 2378.58] want to purchase a
[2378.58 --> 2379.56] membership to support you
[2379.56 --> 2380.88] thank you Norm self
[2380.88 --> 2382.94] hosted dot show slash sre for
[2382.94 --> 2384.38] this show or jupiter dot
[2384.38 --> 2385.50] party for all the shows
[2385.50 --> 2387.12] independent podcasting needs
[2387.12 --> 2389.38] support more than ever he
[2389.38 --> 2390.48] says I have two questions
[2390.48 --> 2392.32] but and one more than more
[2392.32 --> 2394.10] than the other all right so
[2394.10 --> 2394.58] let's start with the
[2394.58 --> 2396.52] important one he says in
[2396.52 --> 2397.64] your failing at scale
[2397.64 --> 2398.60] episode you brought up
[2398.60 --> 2399.46] home assistant and
[2399.46 --> 2400.64] breaking changes with z
[2400.64 --> 2403.08] wave z wave j s etc you
[2403.08 --> 2404.16] also mentioned waiting for