Monitoring

How To Install Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK Stack) on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK Stack) on Ubuntu 14.04

In this tutorial, we will go over the installation of the Elasticsearch ELK Stack on Ubuntu 14.04—that is, Elasticsearch 2.2.x, Logstash 2.2.x, and Kibana 4.4.x. We will also show you how to configure it to gather and visualize the syslogs of your systems in a centralized location, using Filebeat 1.0.x. Logstash is an open source tool for collecting, parsing, and storing logs for future use. Kibana 4 is a web interface that can be used to search and view the logs that Logstash has indexed.

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How To Install Prometheus using Docker on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Docker tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Prometheus using Docker on CentOS 7

Prometheus is an open source monitoring system and time series database. It addresses many aspects of monitoring such as the generation and collection of metrics, graphing the resulting data on dashboards, and alerting on anomalies. To achieve this, it offers a variety of components that are run separately but used in combination.

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How To Monitor Server Health with Checkmk 2.0 on Ubuntu 20.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Monitor Server Health with Checkmk 2.0 on Ubuntu 20.04

Checkmk is a monitoring solution that is both robust and simple to install. It is a self-contained software bundle that combines Nagios with add-ons for gathering, monitoring, and graphing data. In this guide, you will set up Checkmk on an Ubuntu 20.04 server and monitor two separate hosts.

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How To Protect SSH with fail2ban on CentOS 6 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Protect SSH with fail2ban on CentOS 6

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

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How To Use Foreman To Manage Puppet Nodes on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Foreman To Manage Puppet Nodes on Ubuntu 14.04

Foreman is an open-source tool that can help with the management of servers, by providing an easy way to interact with Puppet to automate tasks and application deployment. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Foreman with Puppet, and start using it to manage your servers. We will use Foreman for its reporting and External Node Classifier (ENC) capabilities, to ease the management of Puppet.

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