Hello people, I got a new phone (Motorola Edge 40), and while I'd love to talk about it, I've still got depression. Sorry.

I think I've got elastic search setup to parse metrics out of the postfix logs!

It's taken a week, off and on, to work it out, but now I know.

One must add a "custom ingest pipeline" to the journald integration of the agent that's sharing a host with postgres.

Now I know that, I can start adding rules for dovecot (although really I should be able to scrape their Prometheus metrics), spampd, and the rest of the mail pipeline. I wonder if I can get them all to log a trace id ?

I'm also getting the infrastructure for the Elastic APM stuff sorted. The Elastic server (or maybe as Kibana) can do things like organise a new API key, so it's irritating it can't generate a zip of TLS keys to download.

I've been working half days at work on phased return from sick leave, and it's probably time to work up to full days. Yuch! Working half days has been really nice, shame we can't afford for me to go half time.