Monitoring

How To Install Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (Elastic Stack) on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (Elastic Stack) on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial, we will go over the installation of the Elastic Stack on an Ubuntu 18.04 server. You will learn how to install all the components of the Elastic Stack (including Filebeat, a Beat used for forwarding and centralizing logs and files) and configure them to gather and visualize system logs. We will install all components on a single server, which we will refer to as our Elastic Stack Server.

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How To Set Up a Local OSSEC Installation on Fedora 21 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up a Local OSSEC Installation on Fedora 21

OSSEC is an open-source, host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS) that performs log analysis, integrity checking, Windows registry monitoring, rootkit detection, time-based alerting, and active response. It’s the application to install on your server if you want to keep an eye on what’s happening inside it. In this tutorial you’ll learn how to install OSSEC to monitor the Fedora 21 server it is installed on: a local OSSEC installation.

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How To Install Graylog2 And Centralize Logs On Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Graylog2 And Centralize Logs On Ubuntu 14.04

In this tutorial, we will cover the installation of Graylog2 (v0.20.2), and configure it to gather the syslogs of our systems in a centralized location. Graylog2 is a powerful log management and analysis tool that has many use cases, from monitoring SSH logins and unusual activity to debugging applications. It is based on Elasticsearch, Java, MongoDB, and Scala.

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5 Ways to Improve your Production Web Application Server Setup — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

5 Ways to Improve your Production Web Application Server Setup

Once your application is up and running in a cloud server environment, you may be wondering how you can improve your server environment to make the leap from “it works” to a full-fledged production environment. This article will help you get started with planning and implementing a production environment by creating a loose definition of “production”, and by showing you some components that you can add to your existing architecture to make the transition.

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How To Monitor Nagios Alerts with Alerta on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Monitor Nagios Alerts with Alerta on CentOS 7

Alerta is a web application used to consolidate and de-duplicate alerts from multiple monitoring systems and visualize them on a single screen. Alerta can integrate with many well-known monitoring tools like Nagios, Zabbix, Sensu, InfluxData Kapacitor, and…

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