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The AI built him a tiny metrics agent and the phone apps to read it, at no extra cost

Had the AI build a minimal OTel agent sending VM metrics to a collector plus iOS and macOS apps to query it regularly; works with his existing setup at no extra cost.

How it works

  1. He has the AI build a minimal telemetry agent sending his VMs' metrics to a collector
  2. Plus iOS and macOS apps to query them regularly
  3. It works with his setup at no extra cost

Why it’s worth knowing

A monitoring stack sized to one person's machines, not an enterprise.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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