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Debian system monitoring

This portal gives a list of resources for Linux monitoring of hardware and software.

• DebianPkg bootchart - Graphic generator detailing the boot sequence of the system.
• bootlogd - Recording boot messages
• auth.log - Authentication logs

• DebianPkg netstat - Monitor active connections on your system
• DebianPkg iftop - Observe the flows on your network interfaces
• DebianPkg tcpdump - Capture communications transmitted over your network interfaces
• DebianPkg wireshark - Capture and analyze network traffic
• DebianPkg apachetop - Realtime Apache monitoring tool
• DebianPkg ngrep - grep for network traffic

• DebianPkg iotop - Observe the disk I / O

• DebianPkg procps -

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  } file system utilities - a “pseudo” file system that provides information about processes. Contains

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• DebianPkg htop - Alternative to the traditional DebianPkg top. Shows the resource demands and processes
• DebianPkg saidar - Watch the burden simply and concisely (with network and disks)
• DebianPkg atop - Similar to saidar in the available information (also generates stats for long periods if run in the background via /etc/init.d/atop)

These tools are typically used to monitor the overall functioning of a network computer fleet. In addition to your Debian servers, these tools can control most of the time heterogeneous systems. They are sometimes provided with plugins to monitor a particular feature of the system.

• Pandora FMS - Open source monitoring system
• DebianPkg munin - Munin - a networked resource monitoring tool written in Perl (see also Teams/MuninMaintainers)
• Zabbix - an GPLv2 alternative to Nagios. http://www.zabbix.com/, git
• Shinken - flexible monitoring system http://www.shinken-monitoring.org/
• KSysGuard - a KDE monitoring tool with a

  Qt client, and the headless DebianPkg ksysguardd daemon for monitoring your servers 
  remotely
  through the client

• collectd - a small daemon which collects system information periodically
• Cacti - a complete frontend to rrdtool for monitoring systems and services http://www.cacti.net/
• monit - a utility for monitoring and managing daemons or similar programs
• icinga - a monitoring and management system for hosts, services and networks http://www.icinga.org
• DebianPkg xymon - monitoring system for systems, networks and applications http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/
• graphite - a tool for real-time visualization and storage of numeric time-series data https://launchpad.net/graphite
• Ganglia - cluster monitoring toolkit http://ganglia.info/
• custodian - reliable, scalable system for service monitoring