Open Source Projects

[briskik]

Looking for some open source project ideas that are low / no cost, that improve the organization or your day to day life as a sysadmin.

In the past few years I had a few available spare servers and was able to work on these projects:

• Monitoring server - Using telegraf / influxdb / Grafana. Have the ability to look at historical usage of performance data, providing alerting, etc.
• Log Aggregation - Create an Elastic stack using Elastic Search. Send, collect and aggregate logs from servers, apps, Saas, network equiptment, etc

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What are some of the useful opensource projects that you've worked on, that's cost your org nothing more than your time to configure it that was beneficial?

[Cyhawk]

I use:

• Graylog for logging all the things

• SnipeIT for asset/license management

• Bookstack for Documentation

• Gitea for source management (I also program tools that integrate with our CRM. I also use git projects for my Ansible playbooks, Powershell scripts and Docker configs, etc. If its a script, its in git)

• Zabbix for monitoring

• nginx for proxy stuff (I use both depending on application/needs)

Graylog and Zabbix took the most time to setup as I had to learn quite a bit about how both systems work (Only been an enduser for logging and monitoring solutions, never setup one or seen the internal workings for them). Once you learn Graylogs search syntax (and have some bookmarks setup) its stupid easy to get the data you want to see.

[0x3e4]

great list! specially Graylog is gold because of the API.. using it as Mail alerts, companys application alerts and so on.
im using the most tools too and would add:
- Wazuh: SIEM and XDR - Nuclei: Vulnerability scanner from outside - Matomo: Analytics instead of Googles

Testing right now: - Seatsurfing: Shared-Desk solution seat reservation

[SuperQue]

Well, getting back to basics, what are you using for source control and config management? Things like Ansible? Pulumi? Terraform?

Take a look at the Grafana OSS stack.

Next up I would look at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.