Articles about Linux server monitoring, performance, and product updates.
Learn to monitor Apache performance through filesystem metrics when mod_status is disabled, using /proc to track connections and worker processes reliably.
Read more →Learn how to monitor Redis memory fragmentation using /proc filesystem analysis to avoid the performance overhead of Redis INFO commands while tracking jemalloc patterns.
Read more →A Python web app hit file descriptor exhaustion at 70% ulimit due to TIME_WAIT MySQL socket accumulation that standard monitoring completely missed.
Read more →Build PostgreSQL memory monitoring that detects exhaustion before performance degrades using system-level metrics instead of database queries.
Read more →A forensic case study showing how unusual CPU instruction patterns in /proc/stat exposed steganographic mining malware that bypassed standard monitoring tools.
Read more →Real attack data analysis shows how sophisticated SSH attackers coordinate across continents to evade standard fail2ban detection thresholds.
Read more →A hosting company avoided cascade failures by detecting PostgreSQL, Redis, and MongoDB connection pool exhaustion 20 minutes early through filesystem monitoring.
Read more →How an unexpected hosting bill revealed sophisticated cryptocurrency mining operations hiding in plain sight through CPU instruction analysis.
Read more →A hosting company's Docker containers showed normal memory usage whilst triggering OOM kills. Here's what cgroups v2 changed about memory reporting.
Read more →How hidden cryptocurrency mining software evaded traditional monitoring through instruction set manipulation, and the /proc/cpuinfo analysis that finally caught it.
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