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Introduction to Tracking Statistics on Servers

Introduction to Tracking Statistics on Servers

Introduction

Collecting and analyzing statistics on your servers and infrastructure becomes increasingly valuable as the complexity of your systems increase. In this series, we will introduce you to some battle-tested statistics gathering and rendering tools. We will go over some basic concepts and then show you how to install and set up each component to effectively monitor your servers and processes.

Tutorials in series

Tutorial

An Introduction to Tracking Statistics with Graphite, StatsD, and CollectD

Tutorial

How To Install and Use Graphite on an Ubuntu 14.04 Server

Tutorial

How To Configure Collectd to Gather System Metrics for Graphite on Ubuntu 14.04

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How To Configure StatsD to Collect Arbitrary Stats for Graphite on Ubuntu 14.04

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