Since the update to Prometheus 2.0, the documentation still has to catch up. Because I’ve been debugging a custom written exporter, some unwanted metrics landed in my Prometheus.

This is how to delete those series.

Enable the Prometheus Admin API

Deleting the metrics is only available over the Admin API. You can enable it with a flag. Just edit your Prometheus start-up script and add:

--web.enable-admin-api

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This guide will show you how to deploy Proxmox VE 5 with KVM Routing and NAT on a Hetzner server with focus on networking and DHCP/DHCPv6.

Assumptions

• The connected interface is enp4s0
• 192.0.2.62/27 is the public IP assigned by Hetzner
• 192.0.2.33 is the default gateway for the network
• 10.1.1.0/24 is the private block used on the VMs
• 2001:db8:1111:2222::/64 is the IPv6 block assigned to the host
• 2001:db8:1111:2222:81::/80 is the IPv6 block delegated to the VMs
• The domain name used in the VMs is my.cloud
• The host name of the hypervisor is hyper.my.cloud
• All the commands are run as root

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Ever since I’ve started hosting my own domains, I’ve searched for ways to automate the website provisioning.

Normally, the documentation includes the information on configuring your infrastructure based on roles. But if you have a webserver role for all your minions it doesn’t help with the individual provisioning I am aiming at.

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Tired of always being afraid someone will hack into your Linux computer/server?

One of the most important steps is to make sure the attacker can’t log in with the “root” account.

In order to do this, you have to:

1. Make sure you can “switch user” to root (you will need to be able to control your system, after all)
2. Make sure that nobody can log in with root, neither remote nor local.

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