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How To Install and Configure Debian 10 Buster with GNOME
This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions about how to install Debian 10 Buster with a GNOME desktop. Debian 10 has been finally released on the 6th of July 2019, and it has come with a lot of very great features for system administrators: It is now using the version 3.30 of GNOME, featuring an increased desktop […]
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The Definitive Guide to Centralized Logging with Syslog on Linux
This article details all the steps needed to build a centralized logging architecture on Linux systems. If you are a Linux system administrator, you probably spend a lot of time browsing your log files in order to find relevant information about past events. Most of the time, you are not working with a single machine, […]
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How To Install Logstash on Ubuntu 18.04 and Debian 9
This tutorial covers all the steps necessary to install Logstash on Ubuntu 18.4 and Debian 9. Logstash is used as a data processing pipeline that aims at simplifying log ingestion, parsing, filtering and redirecting. Why do we use Logstash? We use Logstash because Logstash provides a set of plugins that can easily be bound to […]
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The 10 Best Software Engineering Books in 2019
This article focuses on the best software engineering books available for software engineers, developers and project managers. I’ll probably never forget my first day as a software engineer. Back in 2015, I got hired as a software engineer for a consulting company, in Luxembourg. I did not have much experience, but I was ready to […]
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Monitoring Linux Logs with Kibana and Rsyslog
This tutorial details how to build a monitoring pipeline to analyze Linux logs with ELK 7.2 and Rsyslog. If you are a system administrator, or even a curious application developer, there is a high chance that you are regularly digging into your logs to find precious information in them. Sometimes you may want to monitor […]
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How To Install an Elasticsearch Cluster on Ubuntu 18.04
In this post we will setup a 3 Node Elasticsearch Cluster which will be installed on Ubuntu 18.04. Elasticsearch is a distributed, restful search and analytics engine built on Apache Lucene. Elasticsearch has become the most popular search engine and is commonly used for log analytics, full-text search, security intelligence, business analytics etc. In this […]
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How To Install InfluxDB 1.7 and 2.0 on Linux in 2019
This article focuses on the steps to install InfluxDB (both 1.7.x and 2.x versions) on Linux (Ubuntu 18.04 and Debian 9.9). Created in 2013, InfluxDB has established itself as one of the most used time series database. Used by many successful companies around the world like eBay, IBM or Mozilla, InfluxDB can be used in […]