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How to Generate Self-Signed Certificates with openssl on RHEL 10 — step-by-step RHEL 10 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Generate Self-Signed Certificates with openssl on RHEL 10

Introduction This tutorial demonstrates how to Generate Self-Signed Certificates with openssl on RHEL 10 on RHEL 10. It is written for administrators who want a repeatable, well-explained walkthrough that goes beyond a bare command list and explains each configuration choice. Every command is tested against a freshly registered RHEL 10 system with the default AppStream […]

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How to Use Prometheus Blackbox Exporter for Endpoint Monitoring on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Use Prometheus Blackbox Exporter for Endpoint Monitoring on RHEL 9

The Prometheus Blackbox Exporter allows you to probe external endpoints over HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, and ICMP and expose the results as Prometheus metrics. Unlike Node Exporter, which reports what is happening inside a host, the Blackbox Exporter reports whether a service is reachable from the outside — making it ideal for end-to-end availability checks. This […]

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How to Configure syslog-ng for Centralised Syslog on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure syslog-ng for Centralised Syslog on RHEL 9

syslog-ng is a high-performance, flexible syslog daemon that can act as a centralised log server, receiving log messages from dozens of remote hosts, filtering them, and writing them to organised file hierarchies or forwarding them to external storage systems. Unlike the default rsyslog that ships with RHEL 9, syslog-ng offers a powerful pattern-based configuration language […]

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How to Set Up OpenTelemetry Collector on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up OpenTelemetry Collector on RHEL 9

The OpenTelemetry Collector is a vendor-agnostic agent that receives, processes, and exports telemetry data — metrics, traces, and logs — from instrumented applications. Running a standalone Collector on RHEL 9 decouples your application code from the observability backend, making it easy to route data to multiple destinations or swap backends without redeploying services. This guide […]

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How to Monitor MySQL with Percona Monitoring and Management on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Monitor MySQL with Percona Monitoring and Management on RHEL 9

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a free, open-source platform built on top of Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, and Grafana that provides deep visibility into MySQL and other database workloads. PMM separates concerns into a centralised Server component (delivered as a Docker image) and a lightweight Client agent that runs on each database host. This guide walks […]

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How to Install InfluxDB and Telegraf on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install InfluxDB and Telegraf on RHEL 9

InfluxDB 2.x is a purpose-built time-series database that excels at storing high-cardinality metrics with millisecond precision, while Telegraf is its companion agent that collects metrics from hundreds of input plugins and writes them directly to InfluxDB. Together they form the “TIG stack” backbone when paired with Grafana for visualisation. On RHEL 9, both packages are […]

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How to Install Graylog for Centralised Log Management on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Graylog for Centralised Log Management on RHEL 9

Graylog is an open-source centralised log management platform that collects, indexes, and analyses log data from across your infrastructure in one place. On RHEL 9, deploying Graylog 5.x gives operations teams powerful search, alerting, and dashboarding capabilities without relying on cloud-based log services. Graylog depends on MongoDB for metadata storage and OpenSearch (or Elasticsearch) for […]

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How to Set Up the ELK Stack on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up the ELK Stack on RHEL 9

The ELK Stack — Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana — is a battle-tested open-source platform for centralizing, parsing, and visualizing log data at scale. Elasticsearch stores and indexes logs, Logstash ingests and transforms them, and Kibana provides a browser-based interface for searching and dashboarding. Running the ELK Stack on RHEL 9 gives you a self-hosted alternative […]

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How to Install Prometheus and Grafana on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Prometheus and Grafana on RHEL 9

Prometheus and Grafana are a powerful open-source monitoring stack widely used in production Linux environments. Prometheus collects and stores time-series metrics, while Grafana provides rich dashboards and alerting on top of that data. Together they give you deep visibility into system performance, resource utilization, and application health. This tutorial walks through installing both on RHEL […]

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How to Harden Web Servers with Security Headers, CSP, and HSTS on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Harden Web Servers with Security Headers, CSP, and HSTS on RHEL 9

HTTP security headers are a lightweight but highly effective layer of defence for web applications, instructing browsers to enforce policies that mitigate common attacks like clickjacking, MIME-type sniffing, cross-site scripting (XSS), and protocol downgrade attacks. HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security) forces browsers to use HTTPS exclusively, while a Content Security Policy (CSP) controls which resources […]

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