Projects on Ricky Moorhouse

My Blog

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

My site is powered by Hugo and lives on GitHub. I use GitHub Actions to build and deploy the site to BunnyCDN.

Hugo

After previously using a self-built blogging engine and then Wordpress for a while, I decided that I didn't want to deal with running a database backed dynamic site any longer and that a static file based site would both perform better and be simpler to keep running. I looked at a number of different static site generators and played with Jekyll and Pelican but in the end decided on Hugo. This was primarily as I have been moving more to building things in Go and the templating system and site structure felt like a good fit for my needs.

Status Light

Sun, 11 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Updated

Whilst working from home it's useful for the family to know when I am on a video call or just a voice call. I was first looking at Busy bar which I came across via Hiro Report, but couldn't justify the cost of it and as I had a raspberry pi zero and a Blink! sitting around, I decided to build something simple myself. Maybe one day I could make it more complex and build a version using the Pico 2 W Unicorn Galactic?

Trawler

Tue, 02 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Trawler is a metric gathering tool for IBM API Connect deployments, built to monitor Kubernetes-based API Connect cloud deployments.

It runs alongside API Connect in Kubernetes and identifies API Connect components, exposing metrics to Prometheus or other compatible monitoring tooling. The data feeds into dashboards such as Grafana for visualization.

GitHub Project

Metrics Collected

Management Subsystem

API Connect version information (apiconnect_build_info)
User and organization counts (users, provider_orgs, consumer_orgs)
Catalog and product/API counts

DataPower Subsystem

TCP connection stats
Log target stats (events processed, dropped, pending)
Object counts (SSLClientProfile, APICollection, etc.)
HTTP statistics

Analytics Subsystem

Cluster health status
Node and shard counts
Pending tasks

9 Nov 2020

Technical Monitoring API Connect - 2020 update
2 Jun 2020

Technical Trawler - Metric gathering for API Connect