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How To Gather Infrastructure Metrics with Metricbeat on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Gather Infrastructure Metrics with Metricbeat on Ubuntu 18.04

Metricbeat, the replacement for Topbeat, is a lightweight data shipper that collects CPU and memory statistics from a server and sends the data directly to your Elasticsearch deployment. In this tutorial, you will use Metricbeat to forward local system metrics like CPU/memory/disk usage and network utilization from an Ubuntu 18.04 server to another server of the same kind with the Elastic Stack installed.

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How To Gather Infrastructure Metrics with Metricbeat on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Gather Infrastructure Metrics with Metricbeat on CentOS 7

Metricbeat, the replacement for Topbeat, is a lightweight data shipper that collects CPU and memory statistics from a server and sends the data directly to your Elasticsearch deployment. In this tutorial, you will use Metricbeat to forward local system metrics like CPU/memory/disk usage and network utilization from a CentOS 7 server to another server of the same kind with the Elastic Stack installed.

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How To Manage Logfiles with Logrotate on Ubuntu 20.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Manage Logfiles with Logrotate on Ubuntu 20.04

Logrotate is a system utility that manages the automatic rotation and compression of log files. If log files were not rotated, compressed, and periodically pruned, they would eventually consume all available disk space on a system. In this article, we will explore the default Logrotate configuration, then configure log rotation for a fictional custom application.

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