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…

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…

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…

This 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…

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…

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…

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…

If 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…