What are some of the most important features any new Linux system must have before it can be accepted into your organization’s production or live estate? The common answers given are monitoring, logging, and security. For good reason too, any system that is not being monitored, logged, or secure is just a recipe for disaster and in almost every single case will be rejected by any serious operations team.
This chapter will take a deeper look at one of the first things a Linux system should have: monitoring. We will discuss tools that have been used in the past and what tools are ...
