Monitoring

Installing WordPress on Ajenti V — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Installing WordPress on Ajenti V

Ajenti is an open source, web-based control panel that can be used for a large variety of server management tasks. In this tutorial we will install a WordPress blog, using the tools Ajenti V provides.

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How To Use Open Monitoring Distribution with Check_MK on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Open Monitoring Distribution with Check_MK on Ubuntu 14.04

Open Monitoring Distribution (OMD) is a self-contained bundle that includes Nagios together with add-ons for gathering, monitoring, and graphing data. It comes bundled with Check_MK Multisite, a comprehensive tool that addresses many of Nagios’s shortcomings. It provides a web interface for easy administration and configuration, a user-friendly dashboard, a robust notification system, and easy-to-install monitoring agents for many Linux distributions.

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Putting Monitoring and Alerting into Practice — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

Putting Monitoring and Alerting into Practice

In this guide, we will talk about the components of monitoring systems and how to use them to implement your monitoring strategy. We will the basic responsibilities and elements of an effective, reliable monitoring system. Then, we’ll talk about how best to translate your monitoring policies into dashboards and alert policies that provide your team with the information they need without requesting their attention at unwarranted times.

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How To Send E-Mail Alerts on a CentOS VPS for System Monitoring — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Send E-Mail Alerts on a CentOS VPS for System Monitoring

In this article, we learn how to simply send e-mail alerts on a VPS and talk about various triggers that can be set to establish better overall security and to maintain a smooth running system. We go through the basics of e-mail, the necessary applications, along with examples of various e-mail alert triggers.

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How To Use psad to Detect Network Intrusion Attempts on an Ubuntu VPS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use psad to Detect Network Intrusion Attempts on an Ubuntu VPS

A network intrusion detection application can monitor your network interfaces for suspicious traffic and attempted security breaches. In this guide, we will configure a tool called psad to monitor our firewall logs and determine if there is a problem. We will be configuring psad on an Ubuntu 12.04 machine to detect intrusion attempts on our servers.

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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 Query Prometheus on Ubuntu 14.04 Part 1 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Query Prometheus on Ubuntu 14.04 Part 1

Prometheus is an open source monitoring system and time series database. In part 1 of this series, you will learn how to select and filter time series based on their dimensions, aggregate and transform time series, as well as how to do arithmetics between different metrics in Prometheus 1.3.1.

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How To Monitor Your Ubuntu 16.04 System with Sysdig — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Monitor Your Ubuntu 16.04 System with Sysdig

Sysdig is a comprehensive open source system activity monitoring, capture and analysis application with integrated support for application containers. It features a powerful filtering language with customizable output, and core functionality that can…

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