When you did everything right, your observability stack becomes boring. Just bunch of green numbers and predictable plots. I asked myself, What if I could add the existential dread in my Grafana, just to feel something again?
Damián Búho
Doomsday Clock Exporter
Origin
What it does
Doomsday Clock Exporter regularly fetches the current Seconds to Midnight value from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and makes it available to your Prometheus. You can set up automations like “cancel all my cloud subscriptions if the value drops below 30 seconds”.
Or just keep it as a reminder that nothing really matters.
What's next
- support for negative values
- energy consumption optimization (has to work on a lemon/potato battery)
It's for you if
- like to be informed, and thus — sad.
It's not for you if
- you like to be surprised by nuclear strikes