Linux monitoring
Linux server monitoring that belongs with the rest of your fleet
Ubuntu at a client's house, a Debian web host, a Rocky box in the closet, all in the same Watchman Monitoring dashboard as Mac, Windows and ChromeOS. A lightweight, read-only Linux agent, not a second monitoring product to learn.
- Native Linux checks
- Know when a volume is filling up, SSH is under attack, or Apache, MySQL or Kerio has stopped.
- Same dashboard, every platform
- Linux hosts sit next to Mac, Windows and ChromeOS. One workflow, one set of alerts, one client report.
- Simple to install and keep current
- A single compiled agent with nothing extra to install. Add hosts from your dashboard, and update the agent the way you update other Linux software.
What we monitor on Linux
The checks MSPs need as Ubuntu shows up on home machines and Linux servers sit beside the rest of the fleet.
- Storage and volumes
- Root volume capacity and mounted volume status, before a full disk takes a machine down.
- Memory
- Installed RAM, reported with the rest of the host inventory.
- Operating system
- Distro and version, in the same computer record as your Mac and Windows fleet.
- Reboots
- Last reboot time, so unexpected restarts are visible without logging in.
- Failed SSH logins
- Brute-force noise on hosts that have SSH exposed.
- Fail2ban
- Whether the jail is running, not just whether the package is installed.
- Apache
- Service status for the web stack you're expected to keep up.
- MySQL and MariaDB
- Service status for the database next to it.
- Kerio Connect
- Service and mailstore health for shops that run Kerio.
- Network and address
- Interface status and primary internal IPv4, useful when a host moves or drops off the LAN.
- Agent health
- The monitoring agent reports on itself, the same as on Mac and Windows.
- Beacon Reporting
- Heartbeat and uptime alerts when Beacon is enabled for your account.
Supported Linux distributions
If it's a current Ubuntu desktop, a Debian box or a RHEL-family server, Watchman Monitoring can monitor it. Add the host from your dashboard. If you run something less common, contact us and we'll tell you whether it's a fit.
- Intel/AMD and ARM, 64-bit on both. Cloud ARM, Raspberry Pi and ordinary PCs are all in scope.
- Ubuntu, including 22.04 and 24.04 LTS and the Ubuntu-based desktops showing up in residential accounts.
- Debian.
- RHEL family: Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora and Amazon Linux.
Proactive, not reactive
Catch issues before they escalate
A full root volume or a stopped database takes a client's site down without warning. Watchman Monitoring tells you first.
- Full disks.
- Root and mounted volumes approaching capacity.
- Stopped services.
- Apache, MySQL/MariaDB, Fail2ban and Kerio Connect that aren't running.
- Brute-force attempts.
- Failed SSH logins on exposed hosts.
- Unexpected reboots.
- Restarts nobody scheduled.
- Hosts that go quiet.
- Beacon alerts when a server stops checking in.
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