Monitoring

This guide will take you through how to install ntopng on Rocky Linux 8. ntopng is a high performance web-based network traffic monitoring application. It provides a intuitive, encrypted web user interface for the exploration of realtime and historical traffic information. Main ntopng Features Sort network traffic according to many criteria including IP address, port, Layer-7 (L7) application protocols, throughput, Autonomous...

In this tutorial, you will learn on detecting malicious files with Wazuh and VirusTotal. Wazuh is an open source security monitoring system that supports file integrity monitoring by monitoring the file system, identifying changes in content, permissions, ownership, and attributes of files that you need to keep an eye on. In addition, it natively identifies users and applications used...

In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Wazuh agent on Rocky Linux 8. Our previous setup was on setting up Wazuh server with ELK on Rocky Linux. The Wazuh agent is multi-platform and runs on the hosts that the user wants to monitor. It communicates with the Wazuh manager, sending data in near real time through an...

In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Wazuh server on Rocky Linux 8. Wazuh is an open-source tool for visibility, security detection, and compliance. It is a fork of OSSEC HIDS with additional integration with ELK stack and OpenSCAP. The Wazuh stack consists of the Wazuh server (manager), the ELK stack, and the Wazuh agents as shown...

This guide presents a step-by-step tutorial on how to install OSSEC Agent on Rocky Linux 8. OSSEC is an Open Source Host based Intrusion Detection System that performs log analysis, integrity checking, Windows registry monitoring, rootkit detection, real-time alerting and active response. It runs across multiple platforms including Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Solaris and Windows etc. Install OSSEC Agent on...

Welcome to our guide on how to install Prometheus on Rocky Linux 8. Prometheus is an  open-source time series collection and processing monitoring system with a dimensional data model, flexible query language, efficient time series database and modern alerting approach. Install Prometheus on Rocky Linux 8 Step through this guide in order to install and configure Prometheus on Rocky Linux 8. Create Prometheus System User...

In this guide, we are going to learn how to install Grafana on Rocky Linux 8. Grafana is the open source analytics and monitoring solution that enables you to query, visualize and alert on various systems metrics that can be pulled from various time series databases such as Graphite, InfluxDB & Prometheus etc. Install Grafana on Rocky Linux 8 There are different methods...

Welcome to our demo on how to install ELK Stack on Rocky Linux 8. ELK is the acronym for three open source projects: Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. Elasticsearch is a search and analytics engine. Logstash is a server‑side data processing pipeline that ingests data from multiple sources simultaneously, transforms it, and then sends it to a “stash” like Elasticsearch. Kibana lets users visualize...

Follow through this guide to learn how to install Nagios NRPE agent on Rocky Linux 8. In order to execute Nagios plugins that monitors various system services and metrics on a remote host, you need to install NagiosRemote Plugin Executor (NRPE) on those hosts. Install Nagios NRPE Agent on Rocky Linux 8 Nagios NRPE agents: can be installed from the EPEL repos directly using...

This guide will walk you through how to install Nagios Plugins on Rocky Linux 8. Nagios plugins are standalone extensions to Nagios Core that enables Nagios to monitor databases, operating systems, services, applications, network equipment, protocols etc. To use Nagios Plugins, you need to have installed and Setup Nagios Core server. Follow the link below to install Nagios server on Rocky Linux...