2026-09-22
ELK Stack — the best-known software stack for centralized logging. The name is formed from the initials of three components from Elastic: Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. Together they collect logs, parse them into …
Read more2026-09-22
Metrics show something is wrong with the system: response time has increased, memory is exhausted, the share of successful requests has dropped. To understand why this happened, you need logs — records of events written …
Read more2026-09-22
VictoriaMetrics — a time-series database compatible with Prometheus. It is used as a long-term storage for Prometheus metrics or as a complete replacement for it — together with the vmagent collector and the vmalert …
Read more2026-09-22
Zabbix — an “all-in-one” monitoring system: data collection, storage, triggers, alerts, dashboards and access control are combined in a single product. It’s chosen when you need to monitor servers, …
Read more2026-09-22
Prometheus — an open-source monitoring system and time-series database (Apache 2.0 license). It was created at SoundCloud in 2012, and in 2016 the project joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, second after …
Read more2026-09-22
Munin is one of the oldest open-source monitoring systems (GPLv2). It collects system metrics from servers and builds ready-made graphs from them: no query language, no separate database, and almost no configuration. The …
Read more2026-09-22
Monitoring is the continuous collection and analysis of data about the operation of servers, networks, databases, and applications. Its goal is to detect a problem before users do: to see that disk space is running out, …
Read more2026-09-22
UniFi — a line of networking equipment from the American company Ubiquiti: gateways, switches, Wi-Fi access points, surveillance cameras, telephony and access control. The main difference between UniFi and MikroTik is …
Read more2026-09-22
For a small office people usually buy a consumer router from TP-Link, ASUS, or Keenetic. While there are five people and one Internet link, that’s enough. When a second provider appears, remote employees, guest Wi-Fi, IP …
Read more2026-09-22
Plesk — the world’s second most widespread commercial hosting control panel after cPanel. Unlike cPanel, it runs not only on Linux but also on Windows Server, and its capabilities are extended by an extensions …
Read more