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Published inMar 2022
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Asjad Athick
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Asjad Athick

Asjad Athick is a security specialist at Elastic with demonstratable experience in architecting enterprise-scale solutions on the cloud. He believes in empowering people with the right tools to help them achieve their goals. At Elastic, he works with a broad range of customers across Australia and New Zealand to help them understand their environment; this allows them to build robust threat detection, prevention, and response capabilities. He previously worked in the telecommunications space to build a security capability to help analysts identify and contextualize unknown cyber threats. With a background in application development and technology consulting, he has worked with various small businesses and start-up organizations across Australia.
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Using Metricbeat to monitor system and application metrics

Logs make up one aspect of data collection and visibility of a workload you need to monitor. Metrics are a great way to monitor and observe a workload as they represent the internal state of the component at any given point in time.

By correlating logs and metrics, an engineer or developer can quickly understand what a component is doing and how the internal state of the component is changing based on its activities in a given scenario. This is often a useful tool when troubleshooting and resolving issues related to the component in question.

In this section, we will look at collecting some metrics from the nginx web server as well as the host that the server runs on.

Follow the instructions to start collecting system and application metrics using Metricbeat:

  1. Ensure nginx is configured to expose an internal API to collect server metrics.
  2. Edit the /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default file and add the following...
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Asjad Athick

Asjad Athick is a security specialist at Elastic with demonstratable experience in architecting enterprise-scale solutions on the cloud. He believes in empowering people with the right tools to help them achieve their goals. At Elastic, he works with a broad range of customers across Australia and New Zealand to help them understand their environment; this allows them to build robust threat detection, prevention, and response capabilities. He previously worked in the telecommunications space to build a security capability to help analysts identify and contextualize unknown cyber threats. With a background in application development and technology consulting, he has worked with various small businesses and start-up organizations across Australia.
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