Logging

How to Set Up Software RAID with mdadm on Ubuntu 26.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up the ELK Stack on Ubuntu 26.04

The ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) is a powerful log management and analytics platform. Elasticsearch stores and indexes logs, Logstash collects and transforms them, and Kibana provides visualisation dashboards. This guide installs the ELK stack on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Tested and valid on: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Prerequisites Ubuntu 26.04 LTS with at least 4 GB […]

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How To Centralize Logs With Journald on Ubuntu 20.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Centralize Logs With Journald on Ubuntu 20.04

In this guide, you will configure a component of the systemd suite of tools to relay log messages from client systems to a centralized log collection server. You will configure the server and client to use TLS certificates to encrypt the log messages as they are transmitted across insecure networks such as the internet and also to authenticate each other.

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How To Gather Infrastructure Metrics with Topbeat and ELK on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Gather Infrastructure Metrics with Topbeat and ELK on Ubuntu 14.04

In this tutorial, we will show you how to use Topbeat, on an Ubuntu 14.04 server, with an ELK stack to gather and visualize infrastructure metrics. Topbeat, which is one of the several “Beats” data shippers that helps send various types of server data to an Elasticsearch instance, allows you to gather information about the CPU, memory, and process activity on your servers.

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How To Add the log Module to Nginx on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Add the log Module to Nginx on CentOS 7

In this guide, we will look at how to utilize Nginx’s logging module. We’ll set up separate log files for different server blocks and then customize the logging output. We’ll also add additional information about requests (in this tutorial’s example, the time it takes to serve a request) to the access log beyond what Nginx includes by default.

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How To Install and Use GoAccess Web Log Analyzer on Ubuntu 20.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Use GoAccess Web Log Analyzer on Ubuntu 20.04

GoAccess is a tool for monitoring web server logs in realtime. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to install and configure GoAccess for Apache on an Ubuntu 20.04 web server. You’ll access different log files with the program before walking through the modules available to you and how to navigate between them on the command-line interface.

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