Have you ever encountered situations where one application dominated your all network bandwidth? If you have ever been in a situation where one application ate all your traffic, then you will value the role of the trickle bandwidth shaper application. Either you are a system admin or just a Linux user, you need to learn
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How to Do Security Auditing of Linux System Using Lynis Tool
Lynis is an open-source and much powerful auditing tool for Unix/Linux-like operating systems. It scans the system for security information, general system information, installed and available software information, configuration mistakes, security issues, user accounts without a password, wrong file permissions, firewall auditing, etc. Lynis is one of the most trusted automated auditing tools for software
How to Monitor Linux Server and Process Metrics from Browser
In the past, we’ve covered lots of command-line-based tools for monitoring Linux performance, such as top, htop, atop, glances, and more, and a number of web-based tools such as cockpit, pydash, linux-dash, just to mention but a few. You can also run glances in web server mode to monitor remote servers. But all that aside,
How to Use Nmap Script Engine (NSE) Scripts in Linux
Nmap is a popular, powerful and cross-platform command-line network security scanner and exploration tool. It can also help you get an overview of systems that connected your network; you can use it to find out all IP addresses of live hosts, scan open ports and services running on those hosts, and so much more. One
Duf – A Better Linux Disk Monitoring Utility
duf is one of the fancy Linux disk monitoring utilities written in Golang. It is released under MIT license and It supports Linux, macOS, BSD, and even Windows too. Some of the core features of duf include: a better ‘df command‘ alternative. Light and Dark color scheme. Output in JSON format. Option to sort, group,
Sysmon – A Graphical System Activity Monitor for Linux
Sysmon is a Linux activity monitoring tool similar to Windows task manager, was written in Python and released under GPL-3.0 License. This is a Graphical visualization tool that visualizes the following data. By default distribution like Ubuntu comes with a system monitor tool, but the drawback with the default monitor tool is it does not
BpyTop – Resource Monitoring Tool for Linux
BpyTOP is another Linux command-line utility for resource monitoring among many other utilities like a top, Htop, Bashtop, etc. bashtop users can expect similar features in bpytop since bpytop is ported from bashtop and completely written in Python. Bpytop is available for various linux distributions and macOS. BpyTOP Features Fast and responsive UI. Keyboard and
How to Monitor Performance Of CentOS 8/7 Server Using Netdata
There are tons of monitoring tools that are used for keeping an eye on systems performance and sending notifications in case something goes wrong. However, the installation and configuration steps involved are often tedious. Netdata is an open-source real-time monitoring & troubleshooting tool that only requires a few steps to get installed. The Git repository
How to Monitor Ubuntu Performance Using Netdata
Netdata is a free and opensource real-time monitoring and troubleshooting tool for cloud servers, containers, applications, and on-premise IT infrastructure. It provides high granular and real-time system metrics such as CPU performance, RAM & disk utilization, and bandwidth statistics, to mention a few. Additionally, Netdata also provides interactive metric visualizations that can be accessed on
How to Setup and Manage Log Rotation Using Logrotate in Linux
One of the most interesting (and perhaps one of the most important as well) directories in a Linux system is /var/log. According to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, the activity of most services running in the system are written to a file inside this directory or one of its subdirectories. Such files are known as logs