System Monitoring and Observability
Master essential Linux monitoring commands and log analysis techniques for effective system troubleshooting.
Lab Overview
🛠Lab from the Platform Engineering Bootcamp. Used in Week 2. Bootcamp landing page: https://academy.tekanaid.com/bootcamps/platform-engineering-bootcamp Parent course(s):
- Week 2: Linux Essentials for Platform Engineers (slug: linux-essentials-platform-engineers)
🟡 Beta bootcamp lab. Hands-on instructions, check scripts, and solve scripts are in place. Lab is part of the running TaskFlow project that grows across all 21 weeks of the bootcamp.
This hands-on lab introduces you to essential Linux system monitoring and observability practices used by platform engineers daily.
You'll learn to:
- Monitor system resources with top, htop, free, and df commands
- Identify and manage resource-intensive processes
- Analyze system logs using journalctl and traditional log files
- Create automated monitoring scripts with threshold-based alerts
- Understand system performance metrics and troubleshooting strategies
Through practical exercises, you'll gain confidence in diagnosing system issues and maintaining healthy Linux environments - critical skills for any platform engineering role.
Key Resources:
What You'll Learn
Monitor Linux system resources (CPU, memory, disk, network) using standard tools
Configure log aggregation and search for application and system logs
Set up basic alerting thresholds, service health checks, and understand monitoring dashboards
Diagnose common performance issues using system monitoring data
Prerequisites
linux-basics
command-line-fundamentals
text-processing
Technologies Covered
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This lab is part of the Linux Essentials for Platform Engineers course
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