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How to Set Up Checksum Monitoring with AIDE on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Checksum Monitoring with AIDE on RHEL 8

AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) is a host-based intrusion detection tool that builds a cryptographic baseline of your filesystem and alerts you whenever files are added, removed, or modified. On RHEL 8 it is available in the base repositories and integrates cleanly with cron and email for automated daily checks. Unlike network-based intrusion detection, AIDE […]

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How to Install VictoriaMetrics as a Prometheus Alternative on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install VictoriaMetrics as a Prometheus Alternative on RHEL 8

VictoriaMetrics is a fast, cost-efficient time-series database designed as a drop-in replacement for Prometheus storage. It supports the full Prometheus remote_write protocol, exposes its own MetricsQL query language (fully compatible with PromQL), and operates as a single binary with no external dependencies. On RHEL 8, the installation takes under five minutes and the memory footprint […]

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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 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 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 Set Up Loki and Promtail for Log Aggregation on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Loki and Promtail for Log Aggregation on RHEL 8

Loki is a horizontally scalable, highly available log aggregation system designed by Grafana Labs to index only metadata rather than full log content, making it extremely cost-efficient compared to Elasticsearch-based stacks. Promtail is the companion agent that tails local log files, attaches labels, and ships entries to Loki over HTTP. In this tutorial you will […]

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How to Configure Logrotate for Application Logs on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Logrotate for Application Logs on RHEL 8

Logrotate is the standard log rotation utility on RHEL 8, responsible for automatically compressing, archiving, and pruning log files before they consume excessive disk space. Without it, long-running applications like NGINX, custom services, and Java applications can silently fill a filesystem partition and cause outages. Logrotate ships with RHEL 8 and is already configured for […]

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How to Install Netdata on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Netdata on RHEL 8

Netdata is a lightweight, real-time performance monitoring agent that collects thousands of system and application metrics with per-second granularity and displays them through a built-in, zero-configuration web dashboard. Unlike heavier stacks, Netdata starts delivering useful insights within minutes of installation and requires virtually no ongoing maintenance. It can also stream metrics to a central parent […]

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How to Install Prometheus and Grafana on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Prometheus and Grafana on RHEL 8

Prometheus and Grafana are two of the most widely adopted open-source tools for infrastructure monitoring and metrics visualization. Prometheus scrapes and stores time-series data from your systems, while Grafana turns that data into rich, interactive dashboards. Together they give RHEL 8 administrators a powerful, production-ready observability stack. This tutorial walks through installing both tools from […]

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How to Scan for Vulnerabilities with OpenVAS on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Scan for Vulnerabilities with OpenVAS on RHEL 8

OpenVAS (Open Vulnerability Assessment System), now distributed as Greenbone Community Edition, is a powerful open-source vulnerability scanner that identifies known CVEs, misconfigurations, and weak credentials across your network. Running it as a containerized stack on RHEL 8 keeps the scanner isolated and easy to update without conflicting with system packages. This tutorial covers deploying Greenbone […]

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