Nagios is an open source server and network monitoring tool which monitors some services (CPU, HTTP, SMTP, storage disk, temperature, etc) of your servers, network devices and alerts you when a particular service that's being monitored goes wrong. It will also [...]
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How to Install "stacer" Monitoring and Optimising Tool on Linux
Stacer is a GUI based open source resource monitoring and system optimizer tool for Linux. This app has a nice looking dashboard which provides CPU, Memory, Disk and System information. The new vesrion of stacer provides additional monitoring panel for process viewing [...]
14 Command Line Tools to Check CPU Usage in Linux
CPU performance is one aspect of measuring the performance of a system. Monitoring the performance of CPU is essential to debug processes inside any system, manage system resources, making system decisions, and evaluating and examining systems in real time. There [...]
How to Setup osquery to Monitor Security Threat on Ubuntu
OSQUERY is an open source tool developed by Facebook for querying various information related to the state of your machines like running processes, loaded Kernel modules, active logged in users, active listening ports etc. This system instrumentation framework make low-level [...]
Psutil - Library to Fectch Running Process and System Utilization Information
Psutil is a python based library, it provides an interface to monitor your computer system's resources. You can use this utility and its available APIs to find out all details about currently running processes, their resource consumption like memory, network [...]
How to Setup Naemon Networking Monitoring Tool in Linux
Naemon is an Open Source system and network monitoring application which watches hosts and other services that you specify, alerts you when things go bad and notifies you when they get better. Naemon is based on Nagios 4.0.2 and aims [...]
How to Setup Graphite with Statsd on an Ubuntu 16.04
Hi, today we are going to show you installation and configuration of Graphite and Statsd on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. In short Graphite is a highly scalable real-time graphing system which provides real-time visualization and storage of numeric time-series data. This [...]
How to Setup Network Monitoring with OpenNMS on Ubuntu 16.04
OpenNMS is a carrier-grade, highly integrated, open source platform designed for building network monitoring solutions. It has the capability to discover and monitor the nodes automatically in a network. Also you can monitor a service by assigning it to Open-NMS. [...]
How to Setup Monitoring using Dashing Icinga2 Dashboard
Hello, today we are going to install Dashing Icinga2 on Ubuntu. It creates dashboards with icinga2 data, giving you a frontend to monitoring information of your environment's systems. Made out of Ruby on top Dashing framework, which designed to deploy pretty and simple [...]
How to Setup Monitoring for Docker Containers using Prometheus
Prometheus is a next-generation open source monitoring system from SoundCloud and is designed for monitoring such as the generation and collection of metrics, graphing the resulting data on dashboards, and alerting on anomalies etc. In this tutorial we will install/configure [...]
How to Monitor Docker Containers using Grafana on Ubuntu
Grafana is an open source feature rich metrics dashboard. It is very useful for visualizing large-scale measurement data. It provides a powerful and elegant way to create, share, and explore data and dashboards from your disparate metric databases. It supports a [...]
How to Add Host and Manage Services in Icinga2
In my previous article, I've explained how to install and configure an Icinga2 with Icinga Web2 interface. Now it's time to introduce some hosts to our monitoring system. Unlike Nagios, we can add the hosts automatically to the Icinga2 systems. [...]
How to Install Icinga2 on Ubuntu 16.04
ICINGA2 is an open source monitoring system which checks the availability of your network resources, services, notifies users of outages and generates performance data for reporting. It is an advanced form of Nagios and it has a better web interface compared [...]
How to Install and Setup Cacti on Ubuntu 16.04
Hello and welcome to our today's article on another open source Network monitoring tool that is Cacti. Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed with RRDTool’s data storage and graphing functionality. It can graph network bandwidths with SNMP, shell [...]