Content tagged signals

Joining CloudFront logs with JA4 fingerprints at ingestion time to classify every request — verified bots, spoofed crawlers, suspicious scrapers — before it reaches the dashboard.

Publication events as Grafana annotations — overlaying the moment content goes live onto crawler, retrieval, and search performance timelines.

Raw requests are interesting, but how do we distinguish crawlers, retrieval systems, previews and humans?

Building a Visibility Layer for a Static Website with CloudFront, Athena and Grafana

Analyze web traffic with composable shell functions and goaccess. Separate humans from bots, track search traffic, measure LLM consumption — then export to Grafana.

Crawl the entire Terraform AWS module registry, extract metadata, analyze composition patterns. Which modules get reused? Which namespaces ship continuously?

Collect all your commits across orgs, users, and collaborator repos with gh + jq. Merge into a single JSON dataset. Visualize engineering cadence in Grafana.

First-party web analytics with zero dependencies: browser fetch → bash Lambda → curl SigV4 → SNS → Firehose → partitioned S3 → Athena. Under $1/month.

Scrape AWS Lambda runtimes, cache at the edge, serve as JSON. A shell script, a CloudFront behavior, and a cron-free refresh strategy.

A series on building lightweight data collection pipelines with shell scripts, AWS primitives, and Grafana.