Running services, network usage, memory usage, bandwidth, disk I/O, successful logins, whether the thing is even alive, etc…
So far my only method has been “hope and pray”.
Running services, network usage, memory usage, bandwidth, disk I/O, successful logins, whether the thing is even alive, etc…
So far my only method has been “hope and pray”.
Cockpit. Total gamechanger for me. I don’t have to ssh to my boxes individually to see what’s going on. Instead it’s a web UI AND you can connect basically every server you want to one instance.
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit
That said. For individual servers?
htop/nmon(Get nmon straight from the source! https://nmon.sourceforge.io/pmwiki.php) for a birds-eye sysmon view of thingsps -ef | grep <whatever you're looking for>for investigating stuck/hung/zombie processesdmsegtail -f /var/log(or whatever log file you care about)netstatfor net statistics (i think ntop used to be a thing but idk anymore>…)df -hto look at disk usagethose are all that come to mind right away.
EDIT: formatting and quick explanation of what each tool does