tillg / dshbrd

My personal dashboard that I would check every morning with my first coffee.

DSHBRD

My personal dashboard that I would check every morning with my 1st coffee. These are areas / ionformation that I would like to see in my dashboard:

• Emails:
  • No of emails in my Inbox, as a graph over time. With the unread ones highlighted.
  • The top 5 email senders in my inbox and their last 5 emails.
• My MacBooks hardDrive:
  • Free space on my MacBooks harddrive
  • 5 biggest directories / files.
  • No of iles
• Cash on my bank acount with a graph over time.
• Value of my stocks, with a graph over time.
• More ideas will follow...

Architecture

I do this in order to play around with new tech 😀. This is whatr I want to use:

• Prometheus to collect & store the data based on HTTP pulls
• influxDB to collect time series that are pushed to it (i.e. from a batch file that pings)
• Grafana to show beautiful graphs
• Docker to run the different components
• Start with everything running locally

Problems / Learnings / Thoughts

Cannot ping Google from Docker container

From within a docker container (in my case the network-test docker) the ping command doesn't work: As the docker network runs within a VM on the Mac, the return of the ping is not NATted back to the issuing container.

I couldn't find a solution to this, so the network test scripts have to run directly on the Mac...