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Install Prometheus and Grafana on Ubuntu 24.04 on Raff with Node Exporter, localhost-only metrics, SSH-tunneled Grafana, and live dashboard verification.
Install and configure fail2ban on a Raff Ubuntu 24.04 VM. This step-by-step tutorial covers SSH jail setup, custom ban rules, log monitoring, and integration with UFW.
Deploy Uptime Kuma with Docker on a Raff Ubuntu 24.04 VM. Covers Compose, Caddy HTTPS, admin setup, monitor creation, and dashboard verification.
Learn Kubernetes monitoring across metrics, logs, events, and traces, with a practical observability framework for diagnosis, alerts, and workload visibility.
Understand ClickHouse architecture for production analytics across ordering keys, ingestion, partitions, TTL, materialized views, replication, and monitoring.
Understand Kafka architecture for small teams across topics, partitions, consumer groups, replication, retention, monitoring, and managed vs self-hosted ownership.
Understand database monitoring for small teams across slow queries, connections, locks, capacity, replication lag, backups, restore evidence, and alert ownership.
Understand database reliability for small teams across monitoring, failover, backups, PITR, restore testing, capacity, and managed-service ownership.
Learn database storage on block volumes, including disk layout, IOPS and latency monitoring, capacity planning, backups, and recovery decisions.
Learn how backup monitoring detects failed and stale recovery points, broken chains, storage issues, and restore evidence that no longer meets production recovery objectives.
Understand server health checks with a decision framework for liveness, readiness, startup checks, synthetic monitoring, alerts, and recovery.
Use this VPS setup checklist after deployment to configure updates, SSH access, firewall rules, monitoring, backups, DNS, and recovery in the right order.
Build application observability for a small team with practical metrics, structured logs, distributed tracing, SLI, SLO, alerting, and telemetry cost decisions.
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