Introduction Prometheus is an open-source monitoring system developed by SoundCloud. Development on Prometheus started back in 2012 when SoundCloud felt that the existing monitoring systems were proving insufficient for their needs. It uses a time-series Read more…
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In the current world where billion-dollar enterprises are doing their best to figure out everything about you. Talking about a simple proxy server that you can easily configure and keep them guessing seems justified. If Read more…
Without much notice, Oracle has changed the license of Dtrace. The tool adopted by Sun could theoretically be incorporated into the main branch of Linux . This is probably not the case. Already half a year ago Oracle put Read more…
Learn about Fio: Fio Fio Basics Compile Fio Visualize Fio Logs with fio2gnuplot Fio is a tool for measuring IO performance. This article shows how you can compile Fio yourself with the associated source code . You can also use the Read more…
Learn about Fio: Fio Fio Basics Compile Fio Visualize Fio Logs with fio2gnuplot Fio is an acronym for Flexible IO Tester and refers to a tool for measuring IO performance. With Fio, devices such as hard drives or Read more…
Learn about Fio: Fio Fio Basics Compile Fio Visualize Fio Logs with fio2gnuplot What is Fio? Fio (Flexible I / O Tester) is an I / O performance benchmarking tool for Linux, other Unix systems as Read more…
Complementing a simple Samba release, this article shows how to create a username and password based Samba share using a Debian 8 based system. Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 10 are used as client software for testing the connection . Installation and configuration Read more…
Compiling a Linux kernel is not an everyday occurrence for most administrators. It is all the more important to know the right tools when the time comes. The following article shows examples of how Mainline / Vanilla Kernel and the distribution-specific kernel Read more…
In order to improve its development on Ubuntu, the Linux distributor Canonical wants to automatically collect user hardware information as well as information about installed packages and crash reports. “We want to be able to focus our development efforts on Read more…
