Being a Linux administrator is not an easy job. It takes lot of time, patience, and hard work to keep the systems up and running. But Linux System Admins can take some breather as they have some help in the form of command line monitoring … Read more
Cacti is a free and open source front-end network monitoring tool used to monitor and graph time-series metrics of various IT resources in your LAN. It uses the RRDtool to poll services at specified intervals and thereafter represent them on intuitive graphs. Cacti monitors various … Read more
Developed in Python & C++ languages, Checkmk is an open-source monitoring server that is an improvement of Nagios operating system with enhanced plugins and monitoring capabilities. Checkmk uses agents to collect and ship remote systems’ metrics to the server. The agents are available for both … Read more
In the previous article, we looked at how you can add Linux servers on the Zabbix server for monitoring. In this guide, we switch gears and focus our spotlight on how you can add a Windows host system to the Zabbix server for monitoring. For … Read more
In the previous article, we have covered how to Install Zabbix Server on CentOS 8. In this guide, we go a step further and show you how you can add a Linux host to the Zabbix Server so that we can monitor various metrics such … Read more
Zabbix is an open source monitoring tool that can be deployed on-premises or on the cloud depending on that you intend to monitor. With Zabbix, you can monitor a variety of devices: from physical servers, and network devices such as routers and switches on your … Read more
Grafana is a free and opensource tool for querying, analyzing and visualizing metrics from an array of multiple data sources whether physical or from the cloud. With Grafana, you can create, explore and share beautiful and intuitive dashboards from different data sources without a hassle. … Read more
Prometheus is an open source monitoring, querying and alerting tool. Originally built by Soundcloud in 2012, the feature-rich tool has been adopted by several companies to monitor their IT infrastructure and ensure all systems are running smoothly. Prometheus allows you to query and pull time-series … Read more
The Top utility tool is a handy tool that gives Linux users a peek at the performance statistics on their systems. You can use it to monitor resource metrics such as memory usage, CPU, load average, uptime and processes that are running on the system. … Read more
Nagios is a free and opensource network and alerting engine used to monitor various devices, such as network devices, and servers in a network. It supports both Linux and Windows OS and provides an intuitive web interface that allows you to easily monitor network resources. … Read more
Icinga 2 is an open source monitoring tool that is used for checking the availability of IT resources (Network, servers etc) & report the outage in case a resource is down. It also generates performance data for reporting purposes as well. Icinga 2 has multi-threaded … Read more
Check_MK is a free and open source IT monitoring tool for Linux like Operating Systems. Check_MK is a Nagios based plugin that improves on Nagios monitoring system capabilities & performance. It can said to be a front end for Nagios Core, but it in itself … Read more
