<![CDATA[You know, sometimes too much visibility is as bad as too little.]]>You know, sometimes too much visibility is as bad as too little.

I deployed NetAlertX on my network, now I'm seeing a few devices disconnecting the reconnecting to the network at random times. The devices and the times are random, but there are a few patterns I can see by the notifications.

The problem is: this was never a problem before, nothing is really failing, but now it is a problem that is bothering me, and I will probably spend hours trying to find out that it's most likely a whole nothingburger.

Now I'm not sure if it was something worth installing.

@homelab

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/33c28faa-ed43-4a98-81bc-99997ba416ee/you-know-sometimes-too-much-visibility-is-as-bad-as-too-little.RSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 04:34:39 GMTThu, 07 May 2026 12:49:50 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to You know, sometimes too much visibility is as bad as too little. on Thu, 07 May 2026 14:00:07 GMT]]>@badnetmask Yeah, at work they have started a suite of monitoring on some infrastructure... one measures swap utilisation.

They've raised a concern that swap is often above 60% and asked what I am going to do about it.

CPU utilisation is low, memory usage is stable at around 70% and disk utilisation is low. So I asked "what problem are you trying to solve?" ... they replied "we keep getting automated tickets because the swap utilisation is above 50%" ...

I suggested disabling the alert on swap monitoring.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/Fishd/statuses/116533651513504929https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/Fishd/statuses/116533651513504929Thu, 07 May 2026 14:00:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to You know, sometimes too much visibility is as bad as too little. on Thu, 07 May 2026 13:45:33 GMT]]>@badnetmask @homelab I have done this a number of times. Sometimes its better to just read a new book. But once I see it its very hard to let it go lol.

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