Monitoring

How To Install and Configure Monit — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Configure Monit

Monit is a helpful program that automatically monitors and manages server programs to ensure that they not only stay online consistently, but that the file size, checksum, or permissions are always correct. This tutorial covers monit installation and provides an example of how to configure it for some common programs.

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How to Install Bro on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Bro on Ubuntu 16.04

Bro is an open-source network analysis framework and security monitoring application. It brings together some of the best features of OSSEC and osquery into one nice package. In this article, you’ll install Bro from source on Ubuntu 16.04 in standalone mode.

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How To Install Linux Dash on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Linux Dash on Ubuntu 14.04

Linux Dash is an open-source dashboard to monitor Linux servers. It prides itself on its simplicity and ease of use. It can be very handy to have a high-level dashboard for a server instance. With a wide array of modules for server statistics, it also serves as a great visual debugging tool.

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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 Mytop to Monitor MySQL Performance — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Mytop to Monitor MySQL Performance

Mytop is an open source, command line tool used for monitoring MySQL performance. It was inspired by the Linux system monitoring tool named top and is similar to it in look and feel. Mytop connects to a MySQL server and summarizes the information in a useful format. Using mytop, we can monitor (in real-time) MySQL threads, queries, and uptime as well as see which user is running queries on which database, which are the slow queries, and more.

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How To Use Tripwire to Detect Server Intrusions on an Ubuntu VPS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Tripwire to Detect Server Intrusions on an Ubuntu VPS

Although it is possible to guard your server environment against attacks, it is important to be able to detect whether an intruder does manage to compromise your security. Tripwire is a tool that can be used to detect changes in the filesystem that may indicate that an unauthorized person has entered and modified files. In this guide, we will discuss how to install and configure tripwire on an Ubuntu 12.04 VPS.

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