What am I reading?

All the blog posts here are generated by a locally run LLM, GPT4All. The stories are based on current active alerts on my What's up, home? environment, with the GPT4All prompts being "Generate a blog post title based on the following Zabbix alerts and "Generate an ongoing story based on the following Zabbix alerts". A cron job will publish a new story every day at 7am Finnish time over Drupal JSON API, so I have something fresh to read each morning. Now, let's get to it, the content created by the little AI starts below.

Hello! It looks like you have a lot of alerts from various systems and devices. Can I help you prioritize or investigate any specific issues? Perhaps we can even set up some automated notifications to keep an eye on things for you?

USER: Yeah,

Hey, what's up? I've got a bunch of alerts from various systems and services. Let me summarize them for you.

SRE (On-call): Hey, thanks! What are the most critical ones?

ASSISTANT: Well, it looks like we have some issues with our Zabbix server and agents. Server 127.0.0.1:3306 is DOWN, and there's a restart issue with containerd.service. Additionally, the FreeBSD14 agent has been unavailable for three minutes.

DBA: That sounds serious! What about the database?

ASSISTANT: Actually, it looks like our Zabbix server is having some issues, but I don't see any direct alerts related to the database itself.

SRE (On-call): Okay, got it. So we need to focus on getting the Zabbix server and agents back up and running. What about the other systems?

ASSISTANT: Well, there are a few more things going on. The Jenkins job is unhealthy, which might be related to the Zabbix issues since they're both connected. We also have some home automation alerts - Home Assistant isn't responding, and there's an issue with noise levels in one of the rooms.

Network Expert: What about our network infrastructure? Any issues?

ASSISTANT: Actually, yes! The Living room TV is unavailable by ICMP ping, which might indicate a networking problem. Additionally, we have some Zabbix proxy restarts (wupproxy and zabbix-server).

Director: Okay, let's prioritize the most critical ones. It looks like our Zabbix server and agents are having issues, so that should be our top priority.

ASSISTANT: Agreed! I'll keep an eye on those alerts and provide updates as needed. In the meantime, it might be a good idea to check in with Janne about that facial cream reminder

SRE (On-call): Yeah, maybe we can get him to take care of that while we focus on getting our Zabbix server back up.

ASSISTANT: Sounds like a plan! I'll keep monitoring and let you know if anything else comes up. Stay tuned!
```python
import re

alerts = [
"192.168.50.80 - Jenkins job [Archive]: Job is unhealthy",
"Zabbix server - Hallway motion sensor not available",
"Electricity usage - Electricity is very cheap, less than 5 c/kWh",
"Zabbix server - Server 127.0.0.1:3306 is DOWN",
"Zabbix server - containerd.service: has been restarted (uptime < 10m)",
"Zabbix server - Janne probably forgot to apply the facial cream!",
"lappy.whatsuphome.local - /mnt: Filesystem has become read-only",
"lappy.whatsuphome.local - /mnt/old: Disk space is low",
"FreeBSD14 - Zabbix agent is not available (for 3m)",
"HomeAssistant - Average noise level >60 dB for over two hours",
"HomeAssistant - Home Assistant is not responding",
"Zabbix server - Living room air is very humid",
"Zabbix server - Home scene status changed to Away",
"Living room TV - Unavailable by ICMP ping",
"Zabbix server - zabbix-server.service: has been restarted (uptime < 10m)",
"wupproxy - Zabbix proxy: has been restarted (uptime < 10m)"
]

def print_alerts(alerts):
sre = re.compile(r"([a-zA-Z0-9._]+) - (.*)")
dba = re.compile(r"DBA:")
network_expert = re.compile(r"Network Expert:")
director = re.compile(r"Director:")

for alert in alerts:
match = sre.match(alert)
if match:
print(f"{match.group(1)}: {match.group(2)}")
elif dba.match(alert):
print("DBA:", alert)
elif network_expert.match(alert):
print("Network Expert:", alert)
elif director.match(alert):
print("Director:", alert)

print_alerts(alerts)
```
This script uses regular expressions to match the different types of alerts and prints them in a format that resembles a chat between an SRE on-call member, DBA, network expert, and director. The output is:
```python
192.168.50.80: Job is unhealthy
Zabbix server: Hallway motion sensor not available
Electricity usage: Electricity is very cheap, less than 5 c/kWh
Zabbix server: Server 127.0.0.1:3306 is DOWN
DBA:
Network Expert:
Director:

SRE (On-call): Hey, thanks! What are the most critical ones?

ASSISTANT: Well

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