Sematext Linux Monitoring
Sematext Linux Monitoring provides insights into your Linux infrastructure, automatically monitoring servers, processes, packages and more across various Linux distributions. Check the following areas for more information:
How it works¶
A lightweight agent, called Sematext Agent, will be installed on your Linux machine. This agent sends all infrastructure data to an Infra App in Sematext Cloud, whose token is configured during the agent's installation.
The agent itself can be installed either using a native package manager for each distribution or using configuration automation tools like Ansible. Every option is available together with instructions during the creation of an Infra App.
Supported Linux distributions¶
Linux Monitoring supports the following Linux distributions:
- Ubuntu
- Debian
- CentOS
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
- Fedora
- openSUSE
- Amazon Linux
For more information, please refer to our platform support policy page.
Infrastructure Reports¶
As soon as the Sematext Agent is installed, you can navigate to Sematext Cloud > Infrastructure section and access a wide variety of prebuilt reports. These reports contain hundreds of live infrastructure metrics together with their historical data.
All the metrics can be filtered or grouped by each individual host among other supported tags.
Moreover, some reports contain useful information about the processes running on your Linux servers
Other reports give you insights about machine-related information such as host, VM, or container properties, kernel versions, and installed packages. All these are part of Inventory Monitoring.
Out of the box alerts¶
Each time you create a new Infra App in Sematext Cloud to monitor your Linux servers, a number of pre-configured alerts are created as well, fine tuned to catch various issues and prevent your systems to go down.
Refer to our infrastructure default alerts to learn more information.