Monitoring

How to Set Up Real-Time Performance Monitoring with Netdata on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Real-Time Performance Monitoring with Netdata on Ubuntu 16.04

Netdata provides accurate performance monitoring through extensible web dashboards that visualise the processes and services on your Linux systems. It monitors metrics about CPU, memory, disks, networks, processes, and more. The steps in this tutorial cover everything you need to successfully set up one Ubuntu 16.04 server running Netdata using its built-in web server or, optionally, using Nginx.

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How To Use psad to Detect Network Intrusion Attempts on an Ubuntu VPS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use psad to Detect Network Intrusion Attempts on an Ubuntu VPS

A network intrusion detection application can monitor your network interfaces for suspicious traffic and attempted security breaches. In this guide, we will configure a tool called psad to monitor our firewall logs and determine if there is a problem. We will be configuring psad on an Ubuntu 12.04 machine to detect intrusion attempts on our servers.

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3 Strategies for Minimizing Downtime — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

3 Strategies for Minimizing Downtime

As businesses and other organizations increasingly depend on internet-based services, attention is being focused on creating reliable infrastructure that minimizes costly downtime. In this article, we will discuss three areas where improvements could lead to less downtime for your organization. These areas are monitoring and alerting, software deployments, and high availability.

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Adding Logstash Filters To Improve Centralized Logging (Logstash Forwarder) — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Adding Logstash Filters To Improve Centralized Logging (Logstash Forwarder)

Logstash is a powerful tool for centralizing and analyzing logs, which can help to provide and overview of your environment, and to identify issues with your servers. One way to increase the effectiveness of your Logstash setup is to collect important application logs and structure the log data by employing filters, so the data can be readily analyzed and query-able. We will build our filters around “grok” patterns, that will parse the data in the logs into useful bits of information.

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An Introduction to Metrics, Monitoring, and Alerting — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

An Introduction to Metrics, Monitoring, and Alerting

Understanding the state of your infrastructure and systems is essential for ensuring the reliability and stability of your services. In this guide, we will discuss what metrics, monitoring, and alerting are. We will talk about why they are important, what types of opportunities they provide, and the type of data you may wish to track. We will be introducing some key terminology along the way and will end with a short glossary of some other terms you might come across while exploring this space.

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