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How to Install Grafana on Debian 11 — step-by-step Debian 11 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Grafana on Debian 11

Introduction How to Install Grafana on Debian 11 is a fundamental operation for any administrator maintaining a Debian 11 Bullseye server. Debian 11 Bullseye ships with the Linux 6.12 kernel, updated toolchains, and a fully refreshed package archive — meaning version numbers, configuration file paths, and some dependency chains differ from Debian 11. This tutorial […]

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How to Monitor MySQL with Percona Monitoring and Management on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Monitor MySQL with Percona Monitoring and Management on RHEL 8

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is an open-source platform that provides deep visibility into MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB performance — including query analytics, slow-query identification, and time-series dashboards — without requiring a commercial licence. Running PMM Server as a Docker container keeps the server component isolated and easy to upgrade, while the lightweight PMM […]

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How to Install Prometheus on Debian 11 — step-by-step Debian 11 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Prometheus on Debian 11

Introduction How to Install Prometheus on Debian 11 is a fundamental operation for any administrator maintaining a Debian 11 Bullseye server. Debian 11 Bullseye ships with the Linux 6.12 kernel, updated toolchains, and a fully refreshed package archive — meaning version numbers, configuration file paths, and some dependency chains differ from Debian 11. This tutorial […]

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How to Apply CIS Benchmark Hardening to Debian 11 — step-by-step Debian 11 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Apply CIS Benchmark Hardening to Debian 11

Introduction This guide explains how to Apply CIS Benchmark Hardening to Debian 11 on Debian 11 Bullseye. Debian Bullseye uses systemd for service management, nftables as the underlying packet filter (with ufw or iptables front-ends still available), and AppArmor for mandatory access control. Every command is designed for a minimal Debian 11 install with the […]

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How to Install and Configure Nagios Core on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Configure Nagios Core on RHEL 8

Nagios Core is one of the most widely-deployed open-source IT infrastructure monitoring systems in the world, providing alerting and status dashboards for hosts, services, and network devices. On RHEL 8, installing Nagios Core from source gives you the latest release and full control over the build configuration. This tutorial walks through every step from prerequisite […]

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How to Configure OpenVAS Vulnerability Scanner on Debian 11 — step-by-step Debian 11 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure OpenVAS Vulnerability Scanner on Debian 11

Introduction Debian 11 Bullseye is built around the ethos of stability and free software. Setting up configure openvas vulnerability scanner on debian 11 on Bullseye leverages the same proven Debian packaging system that powers millions of servers worldwide, while benefiting from the latest upstream releases included in the Bullseye freeze. Follow each step carefully and […]

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How to Install InfluxDB and Telegraf on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install InfluxDB and Telegraf on RHEL 8

InfluxDB 2.x is a purpose-built time-series database that stores metrics with nanosecond precision and exposes a powerful query language called Flux for aggregating and transforming that data. Telegraf is the official plugin-driven metrics collection agent from InfluxData — it ships over 200 input plugins covering everything from CPU and memory to Docker containers and SNMP […]

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How to Restrict Kernel Module Loading on Debian 11 — step-by-step Debian 11 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Restrict Kernel Module Loading on Debian 11

Introduction Deploying restrict kernel module loading on debian 11 on a Debian 11 Bullseye machine is straightforward thanks to Debian’s policy-compliant packaging. Unlike rpm-based distributions, Debian stores configuration helpers in /etc/default/, uses update-rc.d for older init scripts, and provides dpkg-reconfigure for interactive package configuration. This tutorial stays on the systemd path throughout. Prerequisites Before you […]

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How to Set Up Grafana Alerting and Notification Channels on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Grafana Alerting and Notification Channels on RHEL 8

Grafana 10 ships with a completely redesigned unified alerting engine that replaces the older panel-level alerts, offering multi-dimensional alert rules, flexible notification policies, and first-class support for external notification channels including Slack, email, and PagerDuty. Rather than binding an alert to a single dashboard panel, unified alerting lets you define alert rules independently against any […]

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How to Set Up eBPF-Based Security Monitoring on Debian 11 — step-by-step Debian 11 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up eBPF-Based Security Monitoring on Debian 11

Introduction This guide explains how to Set Up eBPF-Based Security Monitoring on Debian 11 on Debian 11 Bullseye. Debian Bullseye uses systemd for service management, nftables as the underlying packet filter (with ufw or iptables front-ends still available), and AppArmor for mandatory access control. Every command is designed for a minimal Debian 11 install with […]

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