4.9 Monitoring & logging
Every entry filed under Monitoring & logging and its subtopics.
Level
- Beginner 6
- Intermediate 8
- Advanced 0
What kind of help
What do these mean?
- Beginner
- You are new to this topic.
- Intermediate
- You use it, and want to get better.
- Advanced
- You know it well and need the details.
- Guided project
- Build something small from start to finish, step by step.
- Explains an idea
- Plain words on how something works and why.
- Step by step
- Numbered steps to get one task done.
- Cheat sheet
- Commands and options in a table, to look up fast.
- Fixes an error
- An error message, what it means, and how to solve it.
5 entries match these filters
- 0443 Security monitoring explained: IDS, SIEM, EDR and where the logs go A plain language map of the security monitoring tool families, what each one watches, how they feed one another, and where the… Beginner · Explains an idea · Any system Article Detection & threat hunting · Logs 15 Oct 2026
- 0431 What is a detection rule? Sigma explained for beginners A detection rule describes one kind of suspicious activity in logs. Sigma is the shared, tool-independent way to write such rules, so… Beginner · Explains an idea · Any system Article Alerting & dashboards · Security resources & detection 15 Oct 2026
- 0374 Alert rules that do not wake you for nothing How to design alerts people trust: alert on symptoms not causes, use for durations, separate page from ticket severities, group and inhibit… Intermediate · Explains an idea · Any system Article Alerting & dashboards 15 Oct 2026
- 0372 Grafana: your first dashboard from Prometheus data Connect Grafana to a Prometheus server, build a four-panel host dashboard with PromQL queries, set units and thresholds, add an instance variable,… Beginner · Step by step · Browser, Linux, macOS Article Prometheus & Grafana 15 Oct 2026
- 0291 What is a log? A log is a running record of what a program did and when, written to a file so you can look back… Beginner · Explains an idea · Any system Article Logs 15 Oct 2026