Monitoring

How To Use Open Monitoring Distribution with Check_MK on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Open Monitoring Distribution with Check_MK on Ubuntu 14.04

Open Monitoring Distribution (OMD) is a self-contained bundle that includes Nagios together with add-ons for gathering, monitoring, and graphing data. It comes bundled with Check_MK Multisite, a comprehensive tool that addresses many of Nagios’s shortcomings. It provides a web interface for easy administration and configuration, a user-friendly dashboard, a robust notification system, and easy-to-install monitoring agents for many Linux distributions.

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Installing and Configuring Zenoss on a CentOS Virtual Private Server — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Installing and Configuring Zenoss on a CentOS Virtual Private Server

This tutorial will cover how to install and configure Zenoss network management and monitoring software. Using Zenoss, you can monitor the health of your various network-connected devices and servers and chart their performance. Zenoss makes managing a large number of devices easy with a unified web-based interface and a variety of client options.

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Gathering Metrics from Your Infrastructure and Applications — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

Gathering Metrics from Your Infrastructure and Applications

Metrics are the primary material processed by monitoring systems to build a cohesive view of the systems being tracked. In this guide, we will start by discussing a popular framework used to identify the most critical metrics to track. Afterwards, we will walk through how those indicators can be applied to components throughout your deployment. This will focus on the fundamental resources of individual servers at first and then adjust the scope to cover increasingly larger areas of concern.

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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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How To Install Elasticsearch 1.7, Logstash 1.5, and Kibana 4.1 (ELK Stack) on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Elasticsearch 1.7, Logstash 1.5, and Kibana 4.1 (ELK Stack) on CentOS 7

In this tutorial, we will go over the installation of the Elasticsearch ELK Stack on CentOS 7—that is, Elasticsearch 1.7.3, Logstash 1.5.4, and Kibana 4.1.1. We will also show you how to configure it to gather and visualize the syslogs of your systems in a centralized location. Logstash is an open source tool for collecting, parsing, and storing logs for future use. Kibana is a web interface that can be used to search and view the logs that Logstash has indexed.

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How To Monitor CPU Use on cloud servers — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Monitor CPU Use on cloud servers

Suppose your website or application is more sluggish than usual. How do you begin to investigate the problem? There are so many causes for a slow application, but sometimes it’s because your server’s CPUs are maxed out. This guide will help you find out whether that is the case for you.

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