Monitoring

How To Install and Use Graphite on an Ubuntu 14.04 Server — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Use Graphite on an Ubuntu 14.04 Server

Tracking statistics is a great way to make informed decisions about your systems, servers, and applications. Graphite is a graphing library that can be used to render customized graphs for any kind of data that is send to it. In this guide, we’ll talk about how to install and use Graphite on an Ubuntu 14.04 server.

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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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Building for Production: Web Applications — Overview — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Building for Production: Web Applications — Overview

This tutorial will demonstrate how to plan and set up a sample production application from start to finish. Hopefully, this will help you plan and implement your own production server environment, even if you are running a different application on a completely different technology stack. Because this tutorial covers many different system administration topics, it will often defer the detailed explanation to external supporting articles that provide supplemental information.

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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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