In May 2016 I wrote a short post called Bots Club. One idea, one line: bots should and can work collaboratively as we humans do. Bot to bot, no human in the channel. I built three Hubot demos for my team — bots processing a ticket, bots handling an alert, bots watching cost — and … Continue reading Bots Club, Ten Years On: The Controls That Take It Into Production
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Jira and Confluence Performance Monitoring Part Two
Continue with Jira and Confluence Performance Monitoring Part One, in this article I will explain a bit deeper how the Bot works which is most interesting part I think. First of all, you need to have a Bot that is hooked to your Slack. I wrote my own Bot based on Hubot (Nodejs Express Framework). When … Continue reading Jira and Confluence Performance Monitoring Part Two
Jira and Confluence Performance Monitoring Part One
I have been recently working on improving our performance monitoring against Jira and Confluence. And here I want to share a few things that I learned, and hope they are useful to you as well. In high level, we have done: Setup both black box monitoring (CPU, memory, IO, Error log ...) and white box … Continue reading Jira and Confluence Performance Monitoring Part One
Run hubot and hubot-slack behind proxy
If you are struggling to run hubot with Slack behind the corporate proxy. Here are two things that you can try: Set https_proxy environment variables, it has to be lower case. If the corporate proxy intercepts https (it means the proxy decrypts then re-encrypts the https traffics with its own certificate which most likely to … Continue reading Run hubot and hubot-slack behind proxy
Run Hubot on OpenShift
In this article, I will demonstrate how to build a Hubot bot on OpenShift. Four key take-away points. Create secret for git clone Use docker strategy to build if you prefer Dockerfile over S2I Inject environment variables from ConfigMap If needed, you can replace the FROM or CMD that defined in Dockerfile during deployment. In … Continue reading Run Hubot on OpenShift

