Monitoring

How To Install and Configure OSSEC Security Notifications on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Configure OSSEC Security Notifications on Ubuntu 14.04

This tutorial will show you how to install and configure OSSEC to monitor one the cloud provider server running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. We’ll configure OSSEC so that if a file is modified, deleted, or added to the server, OSSEC will notify you by email – in real-time. That’s in addition to other integrity-checking features that OSSEC offers.

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How To Install Elasticsearch 1.7, Logstash 1.5, and Kibana 4.1 (ELK Stack) on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Elasticsearch 1.7, Logstash 1.5, and Kibana 4.1 (ELK Stack) on CentOS 7

In this tutorial, we will go over the installation of the Elasticsearch ELK Stack on CentOS 7—that is, Elasticsearch 1.7.3, Logstash 1.5.4, and Kibana 4.1.1. We will also show you how to configure it to gather and visualize the syslogs of your systems in a centralized location. Logstash is an open source tool for collecting, parsing, and storing logs for future use. Kibana is a web interface that can be used to search and view the logs that Logstash has indexed.

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How To Monitor CPU Use on cloud servers — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Monitor CPU Use on cloud servers

Suppose your website or application is more sluggish than usual. How do you begin to investigate the problem? There are so many causes for a slow application, but sometimes it’s because your server’s CPUs are maxed out. This guide will help you find out whether that is the case for you.

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How to Use Prometheus to Monitor Your CentOS 7 Server — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Use Prometheus to Monitor Your CentOS 7 Server

Prometheus is an open source monitoring system which stores all its data in a time series database and offers a multi-dimensional data-model and a powerful query language. The Prometheus project also includes PromDash (a browser-based tool that can be used to develop custom dashboards) and an experimental AlertManager capable of sending alerts via e-mail.

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