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How To Map User Location with GeoIP and ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Map User Location with GeoIP and ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana)

IP Geolocation, the process used to determine the physical location of an IP address, can be leveraged for a variety of purposes, such as content personalization and traffic analysis. In this tutorial, we will show you how to create a visual geo-mapping of the IP addresses of your application’s users, by using a GeoIP database with Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana.

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How To Use Logstash and Kibana To Centralize Logs On Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Logstash and Kibana To Centralize Logs On Ubuntu 14.04

In this tutorial, we will go over the installation of Logstash 1.4.2 and Kibana 3, and how to configure them to gather and visualize the syslogs of our systems in a centralized location. Logstash is an open source tool for collecting, parsing, and storing logs for future use. Kibana 3 is a web interface that can be used to search and view the logs that Logstash has indexed.

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

How To Gather Infrastructure Metrics with Topbeat and ELK on CentOS 7

In this tutorial, we will show you how to use Topbeat, on a CentOS 7 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 Manage Logs with Graylog 2 on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Manage Logs with Graylog 2 on Ubuntu 16.04

Graylog is a powerful open source log management platform. It aggregates and extracts important data from server logs, which are often sent using the syslog protocol. It also allows you to search and visualize the logs in a web interface. In this…

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How To Use the Linux Auditing System on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use the Linux Auditing System on CentOS 7

The Linux Auditing System helps system administrators create an audit trail, a log for every action on the server. We can track security-relevant events, record the events in a log file, and detect misuse or unauthorized activities by inspecting the audit log files.

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Building for Production: Web Applications — Overview — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Building for Production: Web Applications — Overview

This tutorial will demonstrate how to plan and set up a sample production application from start to finish. Hopefully, this will help you plan and implement your own production server environment, even if you are running a different application on a completely different technology stack. Because this tutorial covers many different system administration topics, it will often defer the detailed explanation to external supporting articles that provide supplemental information.

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