4.9 Monitoring & logging
Every entry filed under Monitoring & logging and its subtopics.
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13 entries match these filters
- 0439 osquery: query your endpoints like a SQL database osquery exposes the state of a Linux, macOS or Windows machine as SQL tables, so you can ask which processes are listening,… Linux, macOS, Windows Repo Detection & threat hunting · Prometheus & Grafana 15 Oct 2026
- 0434 Wazuh: an open source security platform with agents, SIEM and XDR Wazuh installs a small agent on each server and sends its logs, file changes and package lists to a central manager that… Linux, macOS, Windows Repo Detection & threat hunting · Logs 15 Oct 2026
- 0437 Zeek: network security monitoring that turns traffic into logs Zeek, formerly Bro, watches network traffic and writes structured logs of every connection, DNS query, HTTP request and certificate it sees. Analysts… Linux, macOS Repo Detection & threat hunting · Logs 15 Oct 2026
- 0440 pySigma: the Python library that converts Sigma rules into queries pySigma parses Sigma detection rules and, with backend plugins, converts them into native queries for Splunk, Elastic, Loki, Sentinel and other log… Any system Repo Detection & threat hunting · Logs 15 Oct 2026
- 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
- 0432 Try Sigma rules against your own logs Install the sigma-cli converter, take a rule from the public SigmaHQ library, convert it into a query for a log tool you… Intermediate · Step by step · Linux, macOS Article Logs · Security resources & detection 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
- 0377 Netdata: real-time, per-second monitoring with zero configuration The Netdata repository: an agent that auto-discovers hundreds of metrics on Linux hosts, containers and common services, shows them per second in… Linux, macOS Repo Alerting & dashboards · Prometheus & Grafana 15 Oct 2026
- 0376 Loki: horizontally scalable log aggregation inspired by Prometheus The Grafana Loki repository: a log store that indexes labels instead of full text, queried with LogQL from Grafana or logcli, with… Linux, macOS Repo Logs 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
- 0339 Uptime Kuma: self-hosted uptime monitoring Uptime Kuma is a self-hosted monitoring tool with a web UI that checks websites, TCP ports, DNS, Docker containers and more, draws… Linux, macOS, Windows Repo Alerting & dashboards · Docker basics 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