In this tutorial, we are going to explain in step-by-step detail how to install Uptime Kuma on Debian 12.
Uptime Kuma (or just Kuma) is an open-source monitoring tool used for monitoring services over HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, and other protocols. Uptime Kuma offers a variety of features such as multi-languages, multiple status pages, proxy support, etc.
Netdata is an open-source tool to collect metrics per second as well as in real time. This includes but is not limited to disk read and write activity, CPU usage, bandwidth usage, etc. Netdata is designed to run on physical servers or containers. Netdata also offers real-time performance and health monitoring with easy-to-interpret charts. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Netdata on Debian 12.
In this tutorial, we will be installing Sensu on a CentOS 7 VPS. We will also show you how to set it up, that way you can start using it right away.
Sensu is a comprehensive multi-cloud monitoring solution for extensive monitoring of businesses’ IT infrastructure. Sensu is composed of a backend, wherein all data will be gathered and checked, and an agent, which will act as the client host that sends checks/requests to the backend for processing.
Some of Sensu’s key features are the following:
Sensu is an open-source monitoring solution that has the capability to monitor different environments, especially for mixed environments like public, private, and hybrid clouds. Sensu also provides numerous plugins that can be used as what they call “Sensu checks”. These plugins monitor the health of services, server resources, and collect different server metrics from different services. It also provides alerts and notifications.
It is developed using the Ruby language. It utilizes RabbitMQ as the intermediary for the messages, and Redis for data-caching and storage.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Zabbix 3.4 on CentOS 7. Zabbix is an open source network monitoring software designed to monitor and track the status of various network devices, servers, virtual machines and other network hardware. It can use MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle or IBM DB2 as a backend data storage. Zabbix back-end is written in C and the web front-end is written in PHP. Zabbix offers multiple monitoring options such as simple checks to verify the availability and responsiveness of standard services such as IMAP or HTTP without installing any software on the monitored machine.
This article is the second part of our Install OSSEC on Ubuntu 14.04 tutorial.
In the first part, we installed OSSEC as server and it’s web user interface on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS.
This article is the first part of the full tutorial for installing OSSEC server/agent on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS. This part covers the installation of OSSEC 2.8.3 (the latest stable version when this tutorial was written), it’s Web UI installation and shows how to enable MySQL support for OSSEC.
OSSEC is an Open Source Host-based Intrusion Detection System. It mixes together all the aspects of HIDS (host-based intrusion detection) and Security Incident Management (SIM)/Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) together in a simple, powerful, and open source solution.
We’ll show you, How to install Zabbix on Ubuntu. Zabbix is the ultimate enterprise-level software designed for real-time monitoring of millions of metrics collected from tens of thousands of servers, virtual machines and network devices. It uses MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle or IBM DB2 to store data.
Its backend is written in C and the web frontend is written in PHP. Zabbix offers several monitoring options such as checks that can verify the availability and responsiveness of standard services such as SMTP or HTTP without installing any software on the monitored host. Installing Zabbix on Ubuntu, is fairly easy task and should not take more then 15 minutes.