Monitoring

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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How To Install the Munin Monitoring Tool on Debian 8 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install the Munin Monitoring Tool on Debian 8

Munin is a system, network, and infrastructure monitoring application that provides information in graphs through a web browser. It is designed around a client-server architecture and can be configured to monitor the machine it’s installed on (the _Munin master_) and any number of client machines, which in Munin parlance, are called _Munin nodes_.

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How To Query Prometheus on Ubuntu 14.04 Part 2 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Query Prometheus on Ubuntu 14.04 Part 2

Prometheus is an open source monitoring system and time series database. In part 2 of this series, you will build on the setup from the first part and learn more advanced querying techniques and patterns to apply value-based filtering, set operations, histograms, and more.

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How To Use Logstash and Kibana To Centralize Logs On CentOS 6 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Logstash and Kibana To Centralize Logs On CentOS 6

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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Understanding Suricata Signatures — step-by-step Security tutorial on Progressive Robot

Understanding Suricata Signatures

In this tutorial you’ll learn how Suricata signatures are structured, and some important options that are commonly used in most rules. Once you are familiar with how to understand the structure and fields in a signature, you’ll be able to write your own signatures that you can combine with a firewall to alert you about most suspicious traffic to your servers, without needing to use other external rulesets.

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