Monitoring

In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Checkmk monitoring agents on Linux. Monitoring agents enables remote monitoring of system metrics such as system load, memory and disk usage e.t.c. In our previous tutorial, we learnt how to install Checkmk monitoring tool on Ubuntu 20.04 system. How to Monitor IT Infrastructure using Checkmk If you noticed, when first installed, no host/services...

In this tutorial, you will learn how to monitor IT infrastructure using Checkmk. Checkmk is a free and Open Source IT infrastructure monitoring tool, alternative to Nagios. It provides a powerful monitoring of networks, servers, clouds, containers and applications. Fast. Effective. This is an awesome tool. Read more about it on the features page. How to Monitor IT Infrastructure using Checkmk Install...

In this guide, we are going to learn how to install Zabbix Server from source on Debian 11. Zabbix is an enterprise class monitoring solution for any kind of IT infrastructure, services, applications, cloud resources. Install Zabbix Server from Source on Debian 11 Zabbix can be built from the source code or can be installed from Zabbix repository. As of this writing, Zabbix...

Welcome to our guide on how to install ELK Stack on Debian 11. ELK, currently known as Elastic Stack, is the acronym for open source projects comprising; Elasticsearch: a search and analytics engineKibana: a data visualization and dash-boarding tool that enables you to analyze data stored on Elasticsearch.Logstash: a server‑side data processing pipeline that ingests data from multiple sources simultaneously, transforms...

In this guide, we are going to learn how to install Nagios on Debian 11. Nagios is an opensource tool that provides an enterprise-class central monitoring engine for IT monitoring, network monitoring, server and applications monitoring. Some of the Nagios' features include:. Monitoring of network services (via TCP port, SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, PING, etc.)Plugin interface to allow for user-developed service checksContact notifications...

In this guide, we are going to learn how to install osquery on Rocky Linux 8. 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 Osquery...

Follow through this tutorial to learn how to install and configure SNMP on Rocky Linux 8. SNMP stands for Simple Network Management Protocol. It is an Internet Standard protocol that 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 states or any other...

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...