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Linux Monitoring

Monitor Linux Metrics, Logs, and Events in Real Time

Dozens of key metrics and logs at your fingertips!

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  • Ensure minimal downtime
  • Benefit from predictable resource usage
  • Scale effectively based on load
  • Starts at only $2.8/host/month

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Monitor Linux Metrics, Logs, and Events in Real Time

What you get

Find Performance Issues Faster

  • Simple agent setup with extremely low overhead and no dependencies
  • Monitor all key Linux metrics and get infra performance monitoring charts out of the box
  • Get fine-tuned alerts for important Linux metrics
  • Collect logs, key Linux metrics and events to cut troubleshooting time in half
  • Set up anomaly detection or threshold-based alerts on any combination of metrics and filters
Find Performance Issues Faster( https://cdn.sematext.com/images/metrics-chart-error.png )

Everything you need to monitor Linux comes out of the box

Customize reports, charts, and alerts as you wish

    Metrics Collected 104
    Dashboards 8
    Charts 27
    Alerts 14

    Metrics

    Real-Time Visibility into Your Linux Hosts

    Monitor dozens of Linux-specific infrastructure metrics such as the CPU, memory, processes, disk utilization, package inventory, events, and much more.
    View the Linux integration docs for more information!

    • Overall amount of physical memory available on the system
    • Available physical memory for processes to allocate
    • Physical memory allocated by processes
    • Physical memory used for file system buffers where temporary raw blocks are allocated before they are flushed to disk
    • Physical memory used as cache memory for files read from the disk
    • Total amount of the swap area where inactive memory pages are pushed
    • Free physical memory and free swap memory
    • Count of memory pages pulled from the swap area
    • Count of memory pages swapped to disk
    • Time processes have spent executing in user and kernel space
    • CPU idle time
    • Time spent serving I/O requests
    • Time processes have been executing with nice priority
    • CPU time desired by a guest virtual machine
    • Number of bytes read and written to and from the storage layer
    • Number of free and used bytes for the block device
    • Average number of jobs executing in the kernel's run queue
    • Received amount of bytes, packets and errors on the network interface
    • Transmitted amount of bytes, packets and errors on the network interface
    • Dropped inbound and outbound packets on the network interface
    • Check the Operating System metrics for the complete list of Linux metrics Sematext provides.
    Real-Time Visibility into Your Linux Hosts( https://sematext.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/linux-metrics.png )

    Logs

    Troubleshooting Made Easy with Enriched Logs

    Forward log files or Journald logs to Sematext for correlation with performance metrics and faster troubleshooting of your Linux hosts. Find CPU bottlenecks, hosts with low disk space, memory leaks caused by inefficient garbage collection cycles, and much more. Drill-down into errors faster, making troubleshooting and debugging easier.

      Troubleshooting Made Easy with Enriched Logs( https://cdn.sematext.com/images/logs-chart-red.png )

      Alerts

      Notify Your DevOps Team About Critical Issues

      • Set up anomaly detection or threshold alerts
      • Get alerted on both metrics and logs
      • Get out-of-the-box alerts for core Operating System metrics
      • Invite team members. There is no limit on the number of users!
      • Share logs and metrics with your team using role-based access control
      • Send notifications to Slack, PagerDuty, ServiceNow, custom Webhooks, email, etc.
      Notify Your DevOps Team About Critical Issues( https://cdn.sematext.com/images/alerts-square-%20integration.png )

      Dashboards

      Benefit from Pre-Built Dashboards

      • Benefit from out-of-the-box Infra dashboards with both host-specific metrics and Linux metrics
      • Add or remove components and charts in existing reports to customize dashboards
      • Add a new report page with your favorite metrics, charts, components, and filters
      • Combine metrics and logs to cut troubleshooting time in half
      Benefit from Pre-Built Dashboards( https://cdn.sematext.com/images/customized_dashboards_grey.png )

      Correlation

      Compare Any Two Reports in a Single View

      With Split Screen you can compare any two reports. Split Screen is available across the whole product and you can open any report with events, logs, or metrics for easy correlation.

        Compare Any Two Reports in a Single View( https://cdn.sematext.com/images/chart-correlation.png )

        Installation

        Get Started in Seconds

        • Install the agent in seconds. Check out the Sematext Agent docs for more details
        • Install the agent in multiple servers using Ansible configuration management
        • Supported across any distro, Ubuntu, RedHat, CentOS, and many more
        • Use Discovery to discover and monitor services inside containers
        • Select which logs and metrics to collect from the UI
        Get Started in Seconds( https://cdn.sematext.com/images/install-agent.png )

        Plans and pricing

        Plans and Pricing

        Sematext Monitoring pricing starts at $2.8/month/host. There are no long-term commitments necessary, and the cost is usage-based. Monthly cost estimates are displayed in Sematext during and after the free trial to avoid any surprises and provide 100% transparency.

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          Just looking at the default graphs it was clear I can reduce my serverless resource usage on Vercel by 90%, by reducing the allocated memory. Sematext simply turns your logs in actionable data, out of the box. Costs, performance, it's all there

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