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Exploring the most famous performance tool

Waking Up the Neighbors free

Take your performance tuning into the cloud with the top utility.
command line , CPU , Linux , performance , tools
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Flatpak, Snap, and AppImage

Triathlon free

The Flatpak, Snap, and AppImage package formats work across distributions, but each has its specific disadvantages.
distributed , Linux , Modules , software , tools
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AWS security scans with Scout2

Dig Deep free

Scout2 is an open source auditing tool that helps you keep your AWS environments secure.
audit , AWS , secure , tools
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Open source tools for workgroup collaboration

Work Smart free

Want to keep your teams connected even when they are disconnected? RetroShare, SparkleShare, and I2P are free tools that support chat, data sharing, and other collaboration services.
Community , Open Source , tools
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Project management with Phabricator

The Fabricator free

Bug trackers are the least thing that can be deployed to combat chaos in daily IT work. The free Phabricator software provides this service and many others.
MySQL , PHP , Red Hat , tools
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Manage logical volumes with GUI tools

Fair Serving free

Linux uses the Logical Volume Manager to manage large hard drives and mass storage clusters efficiently. We look at various graphical tools that help serve up logical volumes and volume groups.
cluster , graphical , Storage , tools
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Detecting malware with Yara

Search Help free

Use Yara to search your files and applications for hints of a cyberattack.
Open Source , security tools , tools
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Grafana and time series databases

More than a Thousand Words free

We look at database back ends for monitoring, alerting, and trending analysis in the Grafana visualization tool.
Databases , Monitoring , tools
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End-to-end monitoring – Measuring what the user perceives

Test Robot free

Continuously monitoring the performance of applications helps ensure the service quality in multilayered cloud services.
cloud , monitoring , Performance , tools
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Monitoring with Nmon

HPC administrators sometimes assume that if all nodes are functioning, the system is fine. However, the most common issue users have is poor or unexpected application performance. In this case, you need a simple tool to help you understand what’s happening on the nodes.

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