Update/Change Kibana Visualization Index Pattern
In this tutorial, you will learn how to update/change kibana visualization index pattern. Kibana is a free and open user interface that lets you visualize your Elasticsearch data and navigate the Elastic Stack. Sometimes, the index pattern in which you use to visualize your various event data on Kibana may change for some reasons. This usually leads to being unable...
Install Arkime (Moloch) Full Packet Capture tool on Ubuntu
Welcome to our tutorial on how to install Arkime (Moloch) Full Packet Capture tool on Ubuntu. Arkime, formerly Moloch "is a large scale, open source, indexed packet capture and search system".
According to its Github repository page, some of the features of Arkime tool include;
It stores and indexes network traffic in standard PCAP format, providing fast, indexed access.Provides an intuitive...
Install Osquery on Ubuntu 20.04
In this guide, we are going to learn how to install osquery on Ubuntu 20.04. Osquery is an opensource tool that queries an operating system as if it were a relational database. It leverage SQL-like queries to gather Operating System information for performance, security, compliance audit analysis. It runs on multiple platforms such as Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS, Windows systems.
Install...
Install OpenNMS Network Monitoring tool on Ubuntu 20.04
Follow through the guide to install OpenNMS network monitoring tool on Ubuntu 20.04. OpenNMS is an open-source and enterprise grade network monitoring and management solution.
Read about the capabilities of OpenNMS on OpenNMS platform page.
Install OpenNMS Network Monitoring tool on Ubuntu 20.04
In order to install OpenNMS Network Monitoring tool on Ubuntu 20.04;
Install OpenJDK 11 Development Kit on Ubuntu 20.04
Install Java...
Install Velociraptor Client on Linux and Windows Systems
In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Velociraptor Client on Linux and Windows Systems. Velociraptor endpoint agents are called clients. Clients connect to the server and wait for instructions, which mostly consist of VQL statements, then run any VQL queries and return the result to the server.
In our previous tutorial (link provided below), we covered how to install...
Configure ELK Stack Alerting with ElastAlert
Welcome to our tutorial on how to configure ELK Stack alerting with ElastAlert. As much as ELK Stack enables you to collect, process/parse, index and visualize various system data, it can as well be configured to alert on various events. The alerting features enable you to watch for changes or anomalies in your data and perform the necessary actions...
Monitoring Gitlab Metrics with Prometheus and Grafana
In this tutorial, we will learn about monitoring Gitlab metrics with Prometheus and Grafana. Grafana is a data visualization and monitoring tool and supports time series datastores such as Graphite, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Elasticsearch. Prometheus is a powerful time-series monitoring service, providing a flexible platform for monitoring GitLab and other software products. GitLab provides out of the box monitoring with Prometheus,...
Monitor Linux System Metrics with ELK Stack
In this tutorial, you will learn how to monitor Linux system metrics with ELK Stack. ELK Stack, or if you like, Elastic stack can be used to monitor Linux system metrics with the aid of the Metricbeat. Metricbeat is a lightweight shipper for system metrics. It can collect system-level CPU usage, memory, file system, disk IO, and network IO...
Quick Way to Install and Configure SNMP on Ubuntu 20.04
In this guide, we are going to learn how to install and configure SNMP on Ubuntu 20.04. SNMP is an acronym for Simple Network Management Protocol. It provides an agentless method of managing and monitoring of network devices and servers for health information, system metrics such as CPU load, Physical Memory usage, number of running processes, service state e.t.c...
Easily Install and Setup Cacti on Ubuntu 20.04
In this tutorial, you will learn how to easily install and setup Cacti on Ubuntu 20.04. Cacti is a complete frontend to RRDTool. RRDTool is a time-series data storage and display system. It stores and display time-series data (e.g. network bandwidth, machine-room temperature, server load average) in a database. It stores the data in Round Robin Databases (RRDs), a...
