Proxmox Monitoring with Grafana
How to set up Proxmox Monitoring with free and open-source tools. Use InfluxDB2 as a metrics server and Grafana to visualize data.
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How to set up Proxmox Monitoring with free and open-source tools. Use InfluxDB2 as a metrics server and Grafana to visualize data.
Let’s protect your Linux server against Hackers, Malware, and other bad things!
I’ll talk about security strategies and my best-practices to protect Linux Servers.
You must be wondering why are we discussing conventional methods for system monitoring. Isn’t it the thing of the past? Well, we must never forget the roots ! They make us stronger. Why do we need to understand monitoring? System monitoring is an important aspect of system administration. Enterprise applications demand a high level of … Read more
Applications and systems are always trying to communicate with us via log files. They write traces, errors, or acknowledgments in log files. In order to know our systems better, we need to learn how to read logs. If you are in a system administration or application support role, log parsing is a key skill! Log … Read more
In this tutorial, we install an Ubuntu Linux Server with the latest version 21.04. Instead of Docker, we’re using Podman to containerize our applications, and Cockpit to manage our entire Linux server with a nice graphical web interface. So you can still manage containers on your Linux server easily and securely! And of course, we’re … Read more
What is an SSL Wildcard Cert and how does it work on the Nginx Proxy Manager? A Wildcard Cert is a Certificate that is not just valid for a specific Domain or Subdomain but all. It includes a “Wildcard” identified by a * in the domain name, which is just a placeholder for any string. … Read more
With a self-hosted password manager, you get all the data under your control! In this tutorial, we will set up the free open-source password manager server Bitwarden. Bitwarden offers a free available On-Premise solution of their password manager backend server. Where to deploy? Bitwarden can be deployed on a Linux server or easily on DigitalOcean … Read more
Let’s install a webserver on Linux that you can use to host your website. We will set up an Nginx-powered containerized web stack with MySQL database and trusted HTTPS certificates via lets-encrypt. And the container image we will use will run out-of-the-box. But you also can fully customize it to host multiple websites, operate as … Read more
Automation has become a very important skill in IT business because nowadays deployment and development processes get more and more complex. In the modern IT industry, almost everything is automated. And Ansible has become one of the most used automation tools for apps and IT infrastructure. It has become very popular in enterprise environments especially … Read more
In this tutorial, I explain to you which DNS records you should configure to run a fully functioning mail server with a good reputation.