Monitoring

How To Protect SSH with fail2ban on Ubuntu 12.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Protect SSH with fail2ban on Ubuntu 12.04

fail2ban provides a way to automatically protect virtual servers from malicious behavior. This tutorial shows you how to install Fail2Ban, copy the Configuration File, configure the fail2ban defaults, and find out how to configure the ssh defaults. This tutorial describes the required steps to set up fail2ban on Ubuntu.

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How To Monitor Your Managed PostgreSQL Database Using Nagios Core on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Monitor Your Managed PostgreSQL Database Using Nagios Core on Ubuntu 18.04

Database monitoring is key to understanding how a database performs at various points in time. It can help you uncover hidden usage problems and bottlenecks, and will also allow you to be in the loop of everything that is happening to your database. In this tutorial, you will set up PostgreSQL database monitoring in Nagios Core using the check_postgres Nagios plugin and set up Slack-based alerting.

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How To Use Logstash and Kibana To Centralize Logs On Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Logstash and Kibana To Centralize Logs On Ubuntu 14.04

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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How To Gather Infrastructure Metrics with Topbeat and ELK on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Gather Infrastructure Metrics with Topbeat and ELK on CentOS 7

In this tutorial, we will show you how to use Topbeat, on a CentOS 7 server, with an ELK stack to gather and visualize infrastructure metrics. Topbeat, which is one of the several “Beats” data shippers that helps send various types of server data to an Elasticsearch instance, allows you to gather information about the CPU, memory, and process activity on your servers.

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How To Install and Configure OSSEC on FreeBSD 10.1 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Configure OSSEC on FreeBSD 10.1

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. This tutorial will show you how to install and configure OSSEC to monitor a cloud servers running FreeBSD 10.1.

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