Monitoring

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

Building for Production: Web Applications — Monitoring

In this part of the “Building for Production: Web Applications” series (5 of 6), we will add monitoring to improve our awareness of the state of our servers and services. Monitoring software, such as Nagios, Icinga, and Zabbix, enables you to create dashboards and alerts that will show you which components of your application setup need attention. The goal of this is to help you detect issues with your setup, and start fixing them, before your users encounter them.

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How To Install and Use GoAccess Web Log Analyzer with Apache on Debian 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Use GoAccess Web Log Analyzer with Apache on Debian 7

GoAccess allows you to monitor web server logs in real time, using a simple command-line dashboard, in order to quickly view and analyze traffic metrics. It runs entirely in a terminal with statistics organized into separate panels on one scrollable dashboard. It is also possible to use GoAccess to generate HTML, JSON, and CSV web traffic reports.

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How To Detect Anomalies with Skyline on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Detect Anomalies with Skyline on CentOS 7

A monitoring system receives system metrics. As soon as the value of one of the metrics goes outside the predetermined thresholds, it activates the corresponding trigger, and the monitoring system informs you that one of the metrics is outside normal limits.

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How To Install the Ajenti Control Panel and Ajenti V on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install the Ajenti Control Panel and Ajenti V on Ubuntu 14.04

Ajenti is an open source, web-based control panel that can be used for a large variety of server management tasks. It can install packages and run commands, and you can view basic server information such as RAM in use, free disk space, etc. All this can be accessed from a web browser. Optionally, an add-on package called Ajenti V allows you to manage multiple websites and email accounts from the same control panel.

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How To Gather Infrastructure Metrics with Topbeat and ELK on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Gather Infrastructure Metrics with Topbeat and ELK on Ubuntu 14.04

In this tutorial, we will show you how to use Topbeat, on an Ubuntu 14.04 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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