Guides tagged “monitoring”
Step-by-step MdmHost guides about monitoring, sorted A-Z.
18 guides
Add health checks to Docker containers
Write Docker health checks in a Dockerfile or Compose file, read a container's health status, start services in order with service_healthy, and understand how health relates to restarts.
Check CPU, RAM and disk use on Windows
Use Task Manager, Resource Monitor and a few PowerShell commands to find which program is using CPU, memory or disk.
Linux Security: Using aide for File Integrity Monitoring on VPS
AIDE builds a checksum database of your system files and reports anything that changed. This guide installs it, creates a baseline, tunes the rules and schedules daily checks on a Linux VPS.
LiteSpeed logs and Real-Time Stats: monitor your web server (root guide)
Read LiteSpeed error, access and stderr logs and use WebAdmin Real-Time Stats as root to find busy sites, slow PHP, throttled clients and configuration errors.
Monitor a Plesk server with Monitoring and service alerts
Use the Plesk Monitoring extension for CPU, RAM, disk and traffic graphs, set alert thresholds and notifications, and use Services Management to restart failed services.
Monitor CPU, memory, disk and logs on a Linux server
A practical toolkit for checking load, CPU, memory, disk, network and logs on a Linux VPS, with what each number means and when it is a problem.
Monitor Docker containers with Prometheus, cAdvisor and Grafana
Run cAdvisor, Prometheus and Grafana in Docker Compose on a Linux VPS and get per-container CPU, memory, network and disk graphs in one dashboard.
Monitor VPS bandwidth, CPU, RAM and disk usage in Virtualizor
Read Virtualizor's bandwidth and performance graphs, understand monthly traffic limits and throttling, and find what is using CPU, memory or disk inside your VPS.
Monitor your VPS with node_exporter and Grafana dashboards
Install node_exporter on a Linux VPS, scrape it with Prometheus and build a Grafana dashboard so you can see CPU, memory, disk and network history instead of guessing.
Multiple monitors and display scaling in Remote Desktop
Run Remote Desktop full screen or across several monitors, choose which ones, and fix text that is too small, too large or blurry.
Network Hardening: Monitoring for Unauthorized Port Scans on the VPS
Learn how to monitor port scans on a VPS, log the source addresses that probe your server, and block repeat offenders automatically on Linux and Windows.
Read the Imunify360 Incidents log to understand attacks (root guide)
Use the Imunify360 Incidents tab and CLI as root to see brute-force attempts, WAF hits and blocked IPs, spot patterns, and decide when to whitelist, block or tune rules.
Self-host Uptime Kuma for uptime and alert monitoring
Install Uptime Kuma on a Linux VPS with Docker, add HTTP and TCP monitors, and route alerts to email or Telegram.
Set up server alerts in WHM Contact Manager (root guide)
Configure WHM Contact Manager as root so you receive the alerts that matter: disk space, failed services, quota, security and update notices, by email or other channels.
Uptime and SLAs explained: what 99.9% really means
What hosting uptime percentages mean in real downtime, what an SLA promises and excludes, how to monitor your own site, and what affects availability beyond the server.
Use the DirectAdmin message system and notifications
Read and manage DirectAdmin system messages, forward them by email, send announcements to resellers and users, and choose which events notify admins.
Using inotify-tools to Monitor File System Changes in Real-Time on Linux
Install inotify-tools on a Linux VPS, watch directories with inotifywait, tune the kernel watch limits and run a persistent file-change watcher as a systemd service.
Windows Server File Integrity Monitoring: Audit File System Changes
Enable Windows file system auditing, attach SACLs to critical files and folders, and read Event ID 4663 so you can see exactly who changed what on your server.
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