Monitoring

How To Monitor Zabbix Alerts with Alerta on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Monitor Zabbix Alerts with Alerta on CentOS 7

Alerta is a web application used to consolidate and de-duplicate alerts from multiple monitoring systems and visualize them on a single screen. Alerta can integrate with many well-known monitoring tools like Nagios, Zabbix, Sensu, InfluxData Kapacitor, and…

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How To Gather Infrastructure Metrics with Metricbeat on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Gather Infrastructure Metrics with Metricbeat on Ubuntu 18.04

Metricbeat, the replacement for Topbeat, is a lightweight data shipper that collects CPU and memory statistics from a server and sends the data directly to your Elasticsearch deployment. In this tutorial, you will use Metricbeat to forward local system metrics like CPU/memory/disk usage and network utilization from an Ubuntu 18.04 server to another server of the same kind with the Elastic Stack installed.

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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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How to Install Bro on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Bro on Ubuntu 16.04

Bro is an open-source network analysis framework and security monitoring application. It brings together some of the best features of OSSEC and osquery into one nice package. In this article, you’ll install Bro from source on Ubuntu 16.04 in standalone mode.

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How To Use Tripwire to Detect Server Intrusions on an Ubuntu VPS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Tripwire to Detect Server Intrusions on an Ubuntu VPS

Although it is possible to guard your server environment against attacks, it is important to be able to detect whether an intruder does manage to compromise your security. Tripwire is a tool that can be used to detect changes in the filesystem that may indicate that an unauthorized person has entered and modified files. In this guide, we will discuss how to install and configure tripwire on an Ubuntu 12.04 VPS.

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Monitoring for Distributed and Microservices Deployments — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

Monitoring for Distributed and Microservices Deployments

In this guide, we will take a look at how monitoring and metrics collection changes for highly distributed architectures and microservices. The growing popularity of cloud computing, big data clusters, and instance orchestration layers has forced operations professionals to rethink how to design monitoring at scale and tackle unique problems with better instrumentation. We will talk about what makes new models of deployment different and what strategies can be used to meet these new demands.

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