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How to Set Up Uptime Kuma for Service Monitoring on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Uptime Kuma for Service Monitoring on RHEL 8

Uptime Kuma is a self-hosted monitoring tool that provides a clean web interface for tracking the availability of HTTP endpoints, TCP ports, DNS records, and ping targets. On RHEL 8, you can deploy it quickly using Docker or run it directly with Node.js managed by PM2. This tutorial walks through both installation methods, configuring monitors, […]

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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 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 Configure SELinux on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure SELinux on RHEL 8

SELinux (Security-Enhanced Linux) is a mandatory access control (MAC) framework built into the Linux kernel and enabled by default on every RHEL 8 installation. Unlike discretionary access controls such as standard Unix permissions, SELinux enforces policy rules that confine processes to only the files, sockets, and capabilities they legitimately require, limiting the blast radius of […]

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

How to Install ClamAV Antivirus on RHEL 8

ClamAV is an open-source antivirus engine widely used on Linux servers to scan for malware in email attachments, uploaded files, and shared storage directories. Although Linux malware is less common than its Windows counterpart, RHEL 8 servers often act as intermediaries that receive and redistribute files to mixed-OS environments, making antivirus scanning an important layer […]

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How to Configure Prometheus AlertManager on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Prometheus AlertManager on RHEL 8

Prometheus AlertManager handles alert routing, grouping, and silencing so that your monitoring stack delivers the right notifications to the right people at the right time. On RHEL 8, deploying AlertManager as a systemd service gives you a production-ready setup that starts automatically on boot and integrates cleanly with an existing Prometheus instance. This tutorial walks […]

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

How to Install GitLab CE on RHEL 8

GitLab Community Edition is a full-featured, self-hosted DevOps platform combining Git repository management, issue tracking, CI/CD pipelines, and a container registry in a single application. Running GitLab CE on RHEL 8 gives you complete control over your source code and pipeline infrastructure without relying on third-party SaaS providers. This tutorial covers installing GitLab CE from […]

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How to Configure OpenDKIM with Postfix on Debian 12 — step-by-step Debian 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure OpenDKIM with Postfix on Debian 12

Introduction This guide explains how to Configure OpenDKIM with Postfix on Debian 12 on Debian 12 Bookworm. Debian Bookworm 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 12 install with the […]

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How to Configure Postfix Mail Server on Debian 12 — step-by-step Debian 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Postfix Mail Server on Debian 12

Introduction This guide explains how to Configure Postfix Mail Server on Debian 12 on Debian 12 Bookworm. Debian Bookworm 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 12 install with the […]

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How to Configure OpenDKIM with Postfix on Debian 13 — step-by-step Debian 13 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure OpenDKIM with Postfix on Debian 13

Introduction How to Configure OpenDKIM with Postfix on Debian 13 is a fundamental operation for any administrator maintaining a Debian 13 Trixie server. Debian 13 Trixie 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 12. […]

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