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Monitoring your server

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Monitoring your server

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- [Instructor] Whether you have one server or thousands, knowing what's going on is important. In this episode, I want to take a few minutes to talk about various things we can monitor, and different ways we can go about monitoring a system. Monitoring a system can include gathering data about various resources, like CPU utilization, memory usage, disk capacity and status, and network throughput. We're also often interested in things like how many users are logged in, what's in the logs, and the status of services like a web server or file server running on a system. Perhaps the most obvious way of getting information about a system is to log into it and use tools like Top, Free, DF and so on, to collect information in real-time. But this is time consuming, prone to error, and doesn't really scale. For that reason, there are a few different options we have to automatically gather data, to periodically send data, and to…

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