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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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How To Set Up a Remote Desktop with X2Go on Ubuntu 20.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up a Remote Desktop with X2Go on Ubuntu 20.04

X2Go provides a working “cloud desktop,” complete with all the advantages of an always-online, remotely-accessible, easily-scalable computing system with a very fast network. It is also more responsive and more secure than many VNC solutions. In this tutorial, you’ll use X2Go to create a Debian 10 XFCE desktop environment that you can access remotely. This “cloud desktop” will include the exact same utilities that you would obtain had you installed Ubuntu 20.04 and XFCE on your local machine.

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How To Mock Services Using Mountebank and Node.js — step-by-step Javascript tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Mock Services Using Mountebank and Node.js

A service mock is code that simulates a service that is not yet available in order to test an application. In this guide, you will build two flexible service-mocking applications using Node.js and Mountebank. After this tutorial, you’ll be able to mock all kinds of service behavior so you can more easily develop and test your applications.

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