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Log Analyzers

Xlogmaster – graphical system monitoring utility

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

Xlogmaster monitors files, devices and command output through a GTK interface, with regular expression filters and event-triggered actions.

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Log Analyzers

MultiTail – monitor multiple log files in terminal windows

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

MultiTail monitors several log files and command outputs in terminal windows with configurable colours, filtering and live updates.

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Log Analyzers

GNOME Logs – graphical systemd journal viewer

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

GNOME Logs provides a simple desktop interface for searching systemd journal events, inspecting details and diagnosing Linux problems.

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Log Analyzers

glogg – fast graphical explorer for large log files

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

glogg provides fast searching and browsing of large text files, with regular expressions, filtered results and automatic file following.

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Log Analyzers

logrifle – console-based viewer for large log files

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

logrifle is a console log viewer with nested regex filtering, bookmarks, stack trace collapsing and reusable analysis commands.

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Log Analyzers

frontail – stream live log output to a web browser

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms System Software, Web Apps

frontail streams changing log files into a browser, with search, highlighting, authentication and configurable viewing options.

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Log Analyzers

Logmaster – GTK-based viewer for large log files

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

Logmaster is a GTK desktop viewer for large log files, offering search, following, highlighting and command output integration.

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Dashboard

Statping-ng – status page and monitoring server

November 6, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Statping-ng monitors websites and network services, presenting uptime graphs, incident notifications and customisable service status pages.

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Dashboard

Uptime Kuma – self-hosted monitoring tool

November 6, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Uptime Kuma monitors websites, network services, containers and certificates, with notifications, uptime charts and public status pages.

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Dashboard

PHP Server Monitor – website and server monitoring tool

November 6, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

PHP Server Monitor checks websites and network services, records uptime and latency, and alerts administrators by multiple channels.

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Incident Response

Cabot – discontinued monitoring and alerts service

November 4, 2023 Steve Emms System Software, Web Apps

Cabot provided self-hosted infrastructure monitoring, service dashboards and on-call alerts using Graphite metrics and endpoint checks.

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Email

Postfix – secure and widely deployed mail transfer agent

October 31, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Postfix is a secure and widely deployed mail transfer agent with flexible routing, TLS, SMTP authentication, filtering and policy controls.

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Email

OpenSMTPD – secure and lightweight SMTP server

October 31, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

OpenSMTPD is a secure and lightweight SMTP server with simple configuration, local delivery, relaying, filtering and authentication support.

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Email

Exim – configurable mail transfer agent

October 31, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Exim is a configurable mail transfer agent with flexible routing, ACL-based policy controls, authentication, TLS and content scanning.

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Monitor System

htop – interactive process viewer

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

htop is an interactive process viewer with filtering, tree views, CPU affinity controls, process signals and configurable system meters.

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Circuit board

hwinfo – hardware information and diagnostic tool

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

hwinfo probes system hardware, identifies devices and drivers, and generates detailed or concise reports for troubleshooting Linux systems.

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SSD

xdiskusage – lightweight graphical disk usage viewer

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

xdiskusage provides a lightweight graphical view of disk usage, using du and df output to reveal large directories and free space.

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SSD

agedu – identify unused disk space using file access times

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities, Web Apps

agedu compares disk usage with file access times, generating navigable HTML reports to help identify large collections of old data.

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SSD

dirstat-rs – command-line disk usage analyzer

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dirstat-rs analyses directory sizes from the terminal with configurable depth, percentage thresholds, apparent sizes and JSON output.

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SSD

tdu – report top disk usage from the command line

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

tdu reports the largest disk consumers in a directory, including deep paths, file statistics, errors and Ncdu-compatible JSON export.

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