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Linux File Permissions Complete Guide
If you are new to Linux administration, you may be wondering how Linux file permissions work on Linux systems. Maybe you have been denied the read access to a file and you are trying to discover why and how to solve it. Or you may have tried to move a file from a directory to […]
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Prometheus Monitoring : The Definitive Guide in 2019
If you are a DevOps engineer, or a site reliability engineer, you have probably heard about monitoring with Prometheus, at least one time. Built in SoundCloud in 2012, Prometheus has grown to become of the references for system monitoring. Completely open-source, Prometheus exposes dozens of different exporters that one can use in order to monitor […]
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The Definitive Guide To InfluxDB In 2019
InfluxDB is definitely a fast-growing technology. The time series database, developed by InfluxData, is seeing its popularity grow more and more over the past few months. It has become one of the references for developers and engineers willing to bring live-monitoring into their own infrastructure. But what exactly is InfluxDB? Why do you need it? […]
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How To Install InfluxDB on Windows in 2019
When searching for tutorials on how to install InfluxDB on Windows, I could not find good and up to date articles about how to do it properly. To be fair, that’s quite normal. Such technologies are changing and improving all the time and educational resources need to adapt. So how do you install InfluxDB on […]
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How To Create a Grafana Dashboard? (UI + API methods)
Grafana dashboards are awesome. Whether you are looking to monitor your entire infrastructure, or just your home, everybody benefits from having a complete Grafana dashboard. In today’s article, we are going to see how we can easily create a Grafana dashboard, what the different panels are and how they can be used efficiently. Here are […]
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Geolocating SSH Hackers In Real-Time
The rise of the machines has arrived. While you’re reading this article, thousands if not hundreds of thousands of cyberattacks are performed. Some of them are more sophisticated than others : from trojans, phishing attempts, malware infections to botnets attacks (also known as DDoS), cyberattacks are literally everywhere. Today we are taking a look at a very specific type of attacks : SSH […]