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  "path": "/linux-metrics-and-monitoring/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-12T14:03:00.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Gathering notes on metrics and monitoring for Linux (servers).\n\n## Current data\n\nFollowing advice gathered from this post on the YunoHost forum, I found btop++ to be the best tool for observing the metrics of a system at present time. It is a simple solution to see at a glance how loaded the system is **while it’s running**.\n\nI am interested in learning how to use common tools like Prometheus and Grafana to monitor the system over an extended timespan, and potentially alerting me via email for warnings or errors.\n\n## Beszel\n\n#TODO)) Install Beszel",
  "title": "Linux metrics and monitoring"
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