Monitoring

Grafana is an open source metric analytics & visualization tool which can help us to monitor the system with a nice Dashboard. Installing Grafana Grafana is available in the APT packages repository, however it could not be the latest version, so we’ll use the official Grafana repository. First, it is needed to install the software needed before install Grafana. sudo apt install -y apt-transport-https sudo apt install -y software-properties-common wget Next step is to download the GPG Key, in order to install signed packages:...

Monitoring network traffic or bandwitdh usage is a must in a SysAdmin tasks. There are many differents tools to manage this monitoring, but one of my favorites is vnStat. The main advantage of this tool is the simplicity of its usage. Installation With Ubuntu, the way to install this tool is with apt. sudo apt install vnstat First steps Once installed, it is important to know which interfaces are going to be monitoried....