I was poking around my stash of graphs today looking for a little inspiration when it struck me that I could just do this:
ls | sort –random-sort | tail -5 | xargs open
After fiddling around trying to get xargs to do proper quoting/escaping (some of the filenames have spaces in them) I said “fukkit” and just opened the 5 files manually (because, this).
Anyhow, this is what the “random sort” came up with:
canary-fail.png
This one has actually appeared here before, and is one of several examples given in igotw of “carbon monoxide poisoning”, so to speak. (Carbon Monoxide would’ve been a way better title for that post, BTW…)
restli-gateway_restli-gateway-war_i001_ExtAPI_ExtAPI-POST-networkSizes_OutstandingCount_rrd.png
This one was also previously published in a much more recent post about resource leaks (almost exactly one year ago).
userp-has-a-sad.png
Three for three! (And it wins the prize for Best-Named inGraph Snapshot.) This one was sort of also about resources leaks…but really was more about what a former colleague would’ve referred to as “ten pounds of shit in a five-pound sack”.
push_badge_update 95Pct SLA (1).png
Ah, so we’ve finally stumbled upon one that was not posted here. That said, I’m 99% certain it was related to this l’il guy.
IPVS Active connections per Virtual Server per Box.png
…and finally, this one appeared in a previous UA post (which is incidentally probably my favorite UA post of All Time).