Monitoring
On Linux, there are many tools to monitor your server (its availability and/or its network bandwidth).
Thanks to the different packages referenced below, you can :
- monitor and ensure, if you want, the availability of one or more services (website, email server, ...)
- be notified automatically in the event of a problem with one of your services and if an error page is detected on your website, for example
- monitor network usage and bandwidth
- and more
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BandwidthD
- Package name : bandwidthd
- Publisher : David Hinkle
- Categorie : Monitoring
- License : Free
Bandwidthd is a network monitoring program that allows you to generate statistics in HTML format.
These statistics will allow you to know the bandwidth used by your server or by computers in your local network. -
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IPTraf
- Package name : iptraf
- Publisher : Gerard Paul Java
- Categorie : Monitoring
- License : Free
IPTraf is a network monitoring program in real-time.
This program allows you to analyze the network traffic of your server or of your local network using the promiscuous mode. -
Logwatch
- Package name : logwatch
- Publisher : Logwatch
- Categorie : Monitoring
- License : Free
Logwatch is a very useful program to receive periodic email with a summary of errors that have occurred on your Linux server.
Which notably allows to detect attacks recently received on your server. -
Monit
- Package name : monit
- Publisher : Tildeslash Ltd
- Categorie : Monitoring
- License : Free
Monit is a very useful program because he is able to check the availability of your different services and restart them if they become unstable.