Pearls & Irritations — System Status
Generated Wed 05 Aug 2026 06:35:46 AEST ·
re-runs every 6 hours from box · this page is a snapshot, not live.
All systems green
Content statusfor editors — newsletter, readership, today’s articles
Newsletter delivery (receipt monitor: ~/status/newsletter_receipt_check.log)
Receipts for 2026-08-05 (Sydney)
| State | Feed | Detail |
| OK | daily | received 2026-08-04T20:14:40Z from daily@pearlsandirritations.com · subj 'P&I Daily' · ~44 links · checked 2026-08-05 06:20:04 (06:20) |
Yesterday’s views (analytics pipeline: ~/analytics/output/daily_views_*.csv.gz)
2026-08-04 · data refreshed 6.7h ago · 47,920 unique visitors · 151,282 total post views · most-read author (top article): Charles Coppel
Published today (WordPress → GitHub → live front page — all three should sync up)
7 article(s) published 2026-08-05 (Sydney)
“Most read” freshness (home-page card: analytics → data-bridge → CF build)
| State | Signal | Detail |
| OK | source | generated 2026-08-05T06:34 · source file 0.0h old |
| live | live card shows 3/6 of today's top current-week articles (e.g. the-half-empty-hall-why-gen-x-broke-australian-politics) |
Current week — top read articles
System statusfor system administrators — pipeline, credentials, box health
Server & content pipeline (left → right: WordPress → box → GitHub → Cloudflare)
| State | Component | Newest article / status |
| UP | WordPress (publish.*) | newest publish: 2026-08-04T14:52:30Z · id=474944 · The hounding of Tony Fauci shows Trump’s ugly America · view |
| UP | Box ~/hugo/content/ | newest rsync: 2026-08-05 01:00:10 AEST · id=474944 · The hounding of Tony Fauci shows Trump’s ugly America |
| UP | GitHub content-live | HEAD 16690ac · 2026-08-05 01:00:32 +1000 · bridge sync 2026-08-05T01:00:32+10:00 |
| UP | GitHub content-archive | HEAD 5d6c161b · 2026-08-05 01:05:23 +1000 · bridge sync 2026-08-05T01:05:23+10:00 |
| UP | Cloudflare (content-live-pages) | newest item: Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:52:30 +1000 · The hounding of Tony Fauci shows Trump’s ugly America |
Pipeline checks (prlsi/system monitor.yml)
| Sev | Check | Detail |
| OK | archive-workers | all 4 < 36h |
| OK | cf-pages-quota | 40/500 builds used this month |
| OK | content-live | HEAD 16690ac3 up-to-date — WP source has nothing newer (HEAD age 4.9h) |
| OK | e-click | 474944 → article |
| OK | feed-daily | 10 items, fresh, matches Pages |
| OK | frontpage-parity | top-5 ids match; max date drift <5 min (newest WP id 475045) |
| OK | gh-rate-limit | REST core 0% used (0/5000) |
| OK | pages-deploy | success, 215m ago |
| OK | token-expiry | CF token non-expiring or not reported |
| OK | wp-cron-health | reschedule=success (count=7, start=2026-08-05T01:00:02+10:00); md_export errors=0 |
| OK | wp-future | 0 future posts, none overdue |
Tokens & credentials (box: token_liveness_check.py)
Last run 2h24m ago
| Sev | Credential | Detail |
| OK | cf_box_token | status=active expires=no-expiry |
| OK | fastmail | session ok |
| OK | github_ssh | Hi prlsi! You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell a |
| OK | r2 | listed |
| OK | aws_glacier | valid |
| OK | mailchimp | Everything's Chimpy! |
| OK | linkedin_token | active, expires 2026-08-17 (in 13d) |
| OK | linkedin_org_token | active, expires 2026-08-19 (in 14d) |
Box-resident component freshness (log file mtimes)
| State | Component | Age | Last log line |
| OK | Newsletter receipt monitor | 0.3h / 26h | [2026-08-05 06:20:04] OK — daily 06:20: received 2026-08-04T20:14:40Z from daily@pearlsandirritations.com (subj 'P&I Daily', ~44 links) |
| OK | POSTID_MAP KV refresh | 1.9h / 26h | [2026-08-05T04:42:10+10:00] done |
| OK | Token liveness check | 2.4h / 26h | [2026-08-05 04:10:13] OK — all credentials live: cf_box_token:OK | fastmail:OK | github_ssh:OK | r2:OK | aws_glacier:OK | mailchimp:OK | linkedin_token:OK | linkedin_org_token:OK |
| OK | Data-bridge (mostread→site) | 6.3h / 26h | [2026-08-05T00:15:06+10:00] data-bridge done |
| OK | Analytics pipeline | 6.3h / 9h | [0;34m[INFO][0m • https:///statistics/ |
| OK | Content git-bridge (WP→GH) | 0.0h / 1h | [2026-08-05T06:35:01+10:00] git-bridge start (full=0) |
Machine health (box 45.76.119.197: disk / inodes / memory / load)
| State | Metric | Value |
| OK | Disk / used | 71% · 5.9 GB free of 25 GB |
| OK | /tmp used | 4% · 478 MB free of 498 MB (tmpfs, RAM-backed, usrquota) · ours 21 MB |
| OK | Inodes / used | 5% |
| OK | Memory used | 26% · 0.7 GB avail of 1.0 GB |
| OK | Load 1/5/15m | 1.75 1.18 0.67 · 1 cpu |
| OK | Uptime | 8d 3h |