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# About m7kni.io

m7kni.io is the documentation hub for the open-source tooling **M7KNI Ltd** publishes. Every project
site on this domain — `/opnsense2otel/`, `/meraki-dashboard-exporter/`, `/synthkit/` and the rest —
is documentation for a repository under
[github.com/rknightion](https://github.com/rknightion), and it is built from that repository rather
than maintained separately here. When the code changes, the repository pushes and the docs rebuild;
there is no manual publishing step in which the two can drift apart.

## What is documented here

The estate is a set of standalone tools, in three groups:

- **Observability** — exporters and bridges that turn a vendor API into OpenTelemetry or Prometheus
  telemetry: OPNsense firewalls, Cisco Meraki, Tailscale, Microsoft Graph, Salesforce Event
  Monitoring, AI-platform usage, and a synthetic-telemetry generator for testing the pipelines that
  consume all of it.
- **Home Assistant** — custom integrations that bring device and vehicle data into a Home Assistant
  installation.
- **Everything else** — standalone utilities, including a paperless-ngx deduplicator and an Intune
  assignment browser.

Each project's own site carries its installation, configuration and operational reference. The
[glossary](../glossary.md) is shared across all of them, so a term is defined once for the whole estate
rather than eleven times with eleven small differences.

## How the site is built

Every project ships only its Markdown and a small manifest. This hub clones each repository, builds
it, and merges the result into one deployment, so the whole domain shares one theme, one stylesheet,
one search index and one sitemap. The output is entirely static: there is no application server, no
database and no request-time rendering anywhere on m7kni.io.

That has a consequence worth stating plainly for anything crawling this domain: a `404` here means
the path does not exist, not that something is temporarily unavailable. Retrying will not help.
Read [`/llms.txt`](https://m7kni.io/llms.txt) or [`/agents.md`](https://m7kni.io/agents.md) and route
from the index instead.

## Who runs it

M7KNI Ltd is a UK software development and IT consultancy, registered in England and Wales, company
number **17385187**, at Unit 13 Freeland Park, Wareham Road, Lytchett Matravers, Poole, England,
BH16 6FA. The company site is [m7kni.com](https://m7kni.com/). The software documented here is
published as open source, separately from the consultancy's client work.

## What this software does not do

Everything documented on this domain runs on **your** infrastructure. It does not phone home, it
does not report to us, and no telemetry it collects passes through this site. Where a project has
its own privacy or data-handling considerations, they are in that project's documentation, not here.

What this *site* measures — consent-gated analytics, and nothing else — is set out in full in the
[privacy policy](../privacy.md). To reach a person, see [contact](../contact.md).