This tutorial is a complete guide on understanding cron on Linux as well as the role of the crontab file. As a system administrator, it is very likely that you…
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On Linux, as a system administrator, you often want to have a complete list of all the users and all the groups on your host. It is quite crucial for…
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This tutorial focuses on how to find files on Linux using the find and the locate command. As a system administrator, it is a very common task to look for…
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For a system administrator, it is very common to perform input or output redirection during its daily work. Input and output redirection is a very powerful tool, allowing you to…
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This tutorial focuses on how to create swap space on Debian 10 via a swap file or a swap partition on your hard drive. On a Linux system, it is…
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MonitoringPrometheus
How To Install and Configure Blackbox Exporter for Prometheus
by schknby schknThis guide details all the steps needed to install and configure the Blackbox Exporter with Prometheus. As a system administrator, or as an application developer, you are often issuing ping…
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On Debian 10, users are able to change their password pretty easily. It is also possible, if you have sudo rights, to change user passwords as well as to define…
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Created in 2012 at SoundCloud, Prometheus is a time series database used in DevOps for real time monitoring. Prometheus is part of an ecosystem that provides alerting, dashboarding as well…
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Adding and deleting users is one of the most basic tasks when starting from a fresh Debian 10 server. Adding user can be quite useful. As your host grows, you…
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GrafanaMonitoringPrometheus
Windows Server Monitoring using Prometheus and WMI Exporter
by schknby schknIf you are a Windows system administrator, or a site reliability engineer, you spend a lot of time monitoring your Windows servers. Sometimes, your servers are down, but you can’t…