Jake Wright

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Monitoring a Synology NAS with SNMP & Grafana

Introduction I figured it would be fun and mildly useful to have a Grafana dashboard for monitoring my Synology DS1821+ NAS. After spending a rainy weekend grappling with metrics, I have a dashboard that shows me realtime stats including CPU, memory, disks, volumes, temperatures … read more →

How does this website work?

Hugo static site generator jakewright.net is built using the static site generator, Hugo. I find Hugo slightly difficult to work with, but it's fast and it's written in Go which is a language I'm very familiar with. I use a custom theme. When I'm making changes … read more →

Browsing Synology Hyper Backup Data without Access to the NAS

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A backup is only useful if you know how to access it in an emergency. Browsing a backup created with Synology Hyper Backup—without access to the NAS itself—is not as obvious as you might expect. Browsing the backup via the NAS If you still have access to the NAS, you can browse … read more →

Hello, World

I'm going to start blogging again. This is my first post. Since this is a static site (i.e. no backend), there is currently no way to comment on posts. I am looking into solutions to this. read more →

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