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Monitoring & Logging
System monitoring, log management, and performance tracking.
69 articles
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Node Exporter Metrics for Server Monitoring
A comprehensive guide to node-exporter covering installation, configuration, and optimization for Linux VPS environments.
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VictoriaMetrics: Prometheus-Compatible Time Series Database
Guide to VictoriaMetrics as a Prometheus alternative with better compression, lower resource usage, and long-term metrics storage.
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cAdvisor: Container Resource Metrics
Guide to cAdvisor for Docker container resource monitoring with Prometheus integration, key metrics, Grafana dashboards, and alerting.
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PagerDuty Integration with Prometheus Alertmanager
Guide to integrating PagerDuty with Prometheus Alertmanager for on-call alerting, routing, escalation, and incident management.
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Sysdig for Container Troubleshooting
Guide to sysdig for deep container troubleshooting covering network debugging, file system analysis, process monitoring, and capture/replay techniques.
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Graylog for Enterprise Log Management
Guide to Graylog enterprise log management with Docker deployment, log collection, search queries, processing pipelines, and alerting configuration.
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SmokePing: Network Latency Monitoring
Guide to SmokePing for network latency monitoring with ICMP, TCP, DNS, and HTTP probes, generating latency distribution graphs with jitter visualization.
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Thanos: Long-Term Prometheus Storage and HA
Guide to Thanos for long-term Prometheus storage with object storage backends, global query view, HA deduplication, and data compaction.
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Building SLO Dashboards in Grafana
Guide to building SLO dashboards in Grafana with availability tracking, error budget monitoring, burn rate alerting, and latency SLO visualization.
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Log-Based Alerting with Grafana Loki
Guide to log-based alerting with Grafana Loki for application error detection, security monitoring, and infrastructure alerting with LogQL queries.
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Monitor Disk I/O with iostat and iotop
Guide to monitoring disk I/O performance with iostat, iotop, and sar for identifying bottlenecks, with process-level analysis and Prometheus integration.
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Grafana Alloy: Unified Observability Agent
Guide to Grafana Alloy as a unified observability agent for collecting metrics, logs, and traces from VPS infrastructure.
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Checkmk: Comprehensive VPS Monitoring
Guide to deploying Checkmk for comprehensive VPS monitoring with agent setup, service discovery, custom checks, and alerting configuration.
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Gatus: Lightweight Uptime Monitoring
Guide to Gatus for lightweight uptime monitoring with HTTP, TCP, DNS, and SSH health checks, beautiful dashboards, and multi-channel alerting.
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Building Custom Grafana Dashboards
Guide to building custom Grafana dashboards with panel types, template variables, row organization, annotations, and infrastructure monitoring patterns.
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Distributed Tracing with Jaeger
Guide to distributed tracing with Jaeger and OpenTelemetry, covering deployment, application instrumentation, custom spans, and trace analysis.
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OpenTelemetry Application Performance Monitoring
Guide to OpenTelemetry for application performance monitoring with auto-instrumentation, OTel Collector, and RED metrics for Node.js, Python, and Java.
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Grafana Loki: Log Queries and Alerting
Guide to Grafana Loki LogQL queries and alerting, covering log filtering, parsing, metric queries, alert rules, and Promtail configuration.
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Monitoring MySQL with Grafana and Prometheus
Guide to monitoring MySQL with Prometheus mysqld_exporter and Grafana, covering essential metrics, dashboard configuration, and alert rules.
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Cachet: Self-Hosted Status Pages
Guide to self-hosted status pages with Cachet, Gatus, and Upptime for communicating system health and incident information to users.
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Prometheus Recording Rules for Performance
Guide to Prometheus recording rules for pre-computing metrics, optimizing dashboard performance, and enabling complex SLO calculations.
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Setting Up Vector for Log Collection and Routing
Everything you need to know about vector for your VPS, from initial setup to production-ready configuration with log-collection.
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Building a Status Page with Cachet or Gatus
Learn how to set up and configure status-page on your VPS with step-by-step instructions, including cachet and best practices for production environments.
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Netdata Real-Time Performance Monitoring
Learn how to set up and configure netdata on your VPS with step-by-step instructions, including real-time and best practices for production environments.
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Setting Up Graylog for Enterprise Log Management
Learn how to set up and configure graylog on your VPS with step-by-step instructions, including log-management and best practices for production environments.
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How to Set Up Loki for Log Aggregation
How to Set Up Loki for Log Aggregation Loki is a horizontally scalable, highly available log aggregation system designed by the Grafana team. Unlike traditio...
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How to Monitor SSL Certificate Expiration Automatically
How to Monitor SSL Certificate Expiration Automatically Expired SSL certificates cause browser warnings, break API integrations, and erode trust. Automated m...
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How to Set Up Uptime Kuma for Service Monitoring
How to Set Up Uptime Kuma for Service Monitoring Uptime Kuma is a self-hosted monitoring tool that tracks the availability of your websites, APIs, and servic...
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How to Configure Alerting with Grafana
How to Configure Alerting with Grafana Grafana's unified alerting system lets you define alert rules against any data source, manage notification routing, an...
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How to Set Up Zabbix for Server Monitoring
What Is Zabbix? Zabbix is an enterprise-grade open-source monitoring platform that tracks servers, networks, applications, and cloud resources. It provides r...
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How to Set Up Telegraf with InfluxDB and Grafana
The TIG Stack The Telegraf-InfluxDB-Grafana (TIG) stack is a popular open-source monitoring solution. Telegraf collects metrics, InfluxDB stores them as time...
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How to Set Up Alertmanager for Prometheus
What Is Alertmanager? Alertmanager handles alerts sent by Prometheus server. It takes care of deduplication, grouping, silencing, and routing alerts to the c...
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How to Monitor SSL Certificates Automatically
Why Monitor SSL Certificates? Expired SSL certificates cause browser warnings, break API integrations, and erode user trust. Automated monitoring ensures you...
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Setting Up Healthchecks.io for Cron Monitoring
Practical guide to healthchecks featuring real-world examples, performance tuning tips, and security best practices.
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Server Health Check Script for Automated Monitoring
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Understanding Linux Load Average and When to Worry
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Monitoring SSL Certificate Expiration
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Monitoring Docker Containers with cAdvisor
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Setting Up Alerting with Grafana
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Log Monitoring with Loki and Promtail
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Setting Up Prometheus and Grafana for Server Monitoring
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Setting Up Uptime Monitoring with Uptime Kuma
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Linux Server Monitoring with Netdata
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Log Analysis with grep awk and jq
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Monitoring Nginx with Prometheus and Grafana
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Setting Up Alert Rules in Prometheus
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Installing Prometheus and Grafana for Server Monitoring
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Setting Up Uptime Kuma for Service Monitoring
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Linux System Metrics You Should Track
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Centralized Log Management with Loki and Grafana
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Writing Health Check Scripts for Your Services
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How to Install and Use htop
htop is an interactive process viewer — a better alternative to top.Installapt install htop -yUsagehtopKey ControlsF2 — Setup/configureF3 — Search p...
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How to Set Up Prometheus for Server Monitoring
Prometheus collects and stores time-series metrics from your server.Install Node Exporteruseradd --no-create-home --shell /bin/false node_exporter\nwget https:/...
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How to Set Up Log Rotation on Linux
Log rotation prevents log files from consuming all disk space.Default ConfigurationLogrotate runs daily via cron. Main config: /etc/logrotate.conf. App-specific...
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How to Monitor Server Uptime and Load
Track your server's availability and performance metrics.Check UptimeuptimeOutput: 10:30:00 up 45 days, 3:12, 1 user, load average: 0.15, 0.10, 0.05Understandin...
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How to Monitor Network Traffic on Linux
Track bandwidth usage and identify network-heavy processes.iftop (Real-Time)apt install iftop -y\niftop -i eth0vnStat (Historical)apt install vnstat -y\nvnstat ...
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How to Set Up Email Alerts for Server Issues
Get notified when your server has problems so you can respond quickly.Install Mail Utilitiesapt install mailutils -yDisk Space Alert Script#!/bin/bash\nUSAGE=$(...
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Server Temperature and Hardware Monitoring with IPMI
Learn how to set up and configure ipmi on your VPS with step-by-step instructions, including temperature and best practices for production environments.
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Custom Grafana Dashboards for VPS Metrics
A comprehensive guide to grafana covering installation, configuration, and optimization for Linux VPS environments.
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Setting Up Prometheus and Grafana Monitoring
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Monitoring Docker Containers with cAdvisor
A comprehensive guide to cadvisor covering installation, configuration, and optimization for Linux VPS environments.
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Uptime Monitoring with Healthchecks and Alerts
You need to know when your services go down — before your customers tell you.
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MySQL Performance Monitoring with PMM
Step-by-step tutorial for pmm on Ubuntu/Debian servers, with practical code examples and troubleshooting tips.
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Centralized Logging with Loki and Grafana
Practical guide to loki featuring real-world examples, performance tuning tips, and security best practices.
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Monitoring SSL Certificate Expiry Automatically
A comprehensive guide to ssl covering installation, configuration, and optimization for Linux VPS environments.
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Setting Up Prometheus and Grafana Monitoring Stack
Practical guide to prometheus featuring real-world examples, performance tuning tips, and security best practices.
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ELK Stack Deployment for Log Analysis
Learn how to set up and configure elk on your VPS with step-by-step instructions, including elasticsearch and best practices for production environments.
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Synthetic Monitoring with Blackbox Exporter
Step-by-step tutorial for blackbox on Ubuntu/Debian servers, with practical code examples and troubleshooting tips.
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Setting Up Alertmanager for Prometheus Alerts
Learn how to set up and configure alertmanager on your VPS with step-by-step instructions, including prometheus and best practices for production environments.
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