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Adventures in Monitoring
Linux systems, reliability war stories, monitor recipes, and spec-driven agentic development around FTMON.
- FTMON Update: Automatic Database Cleanup and Better Status ReportingFTMON v2.0.0a15 automatically removes stale catalogue entries, improves database reporting, and returns more useful status information through MCP.
- FTMON Now Runs on Windows and macOSFTMON v2.0.0a13 adds native Windows and macOS monitoring, platform-specific profiles, durable event collection, desktop notifications, and real-hardware validation.
- FTMON is back: a 2001 Perl monitor, rebuilt in four days with a frontier modelTwenty-five years ago I wrote FTMON in Perl. This month I brought it back as a clean MIT Python rewrite — in four days, with a frontier model and a machine-checked spec.