The Best New Server Monitoring eBooks To Read In 2025

Discover practical recipes to help you efficiently monitor enterprise IT infrastructure for Microsoft Windows, Linux, networking, and more. Key FeaturesFind out how you can leverage some of the most exciting features of Zabbix 7Discover easy-to-follow, practical solutions for common problems in network monitoring with ZabbixPerform professional IT infrastructure and application monitoring across multiple platformsPurchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBookBook DescriptionRealize the full potential of Zabbix 7 with this updated third edition of the Zabbix 7 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook.

Packed with new recipes and updated with the latest Zabbix functionalities, this guide covers everything you need, whether you’re setting up Zabbix with built-in (proxy) high availability, using LDAP JIT user provisioning, implementing low-level host discovery, or creating advanced triggers. This hands-on guide offers easy-to-follow recipes to use Zabbix 7 to monitor the performance of devices and applications across your network. You'll start by learning how to install Zabbix and examine its most prominent features, ensuring you make the right design choices to build a scalable and easily manageable environment. Each recipe is crafted to help you build items and triggers for different types of monitoring, create templates, and use Zabbix proxies. You'll also get to grips with using the Zabbix API for customization and managing your Zabbix server and database. Finally, you'll find quick solutions to the common and not-so-common problems that you may encounter in your Zabbix monitoring work. By the end of this book, you'll have expert insights into using Zabbix for all your monitoring needs and be able to build a solid Zabbix setup by leveraging its key functionalities. What you will learnImplement a high-availability Zabbix setup for both server and proxiesBuild templates and explore various monitoring types available in Zabbix 7Use Zabbix proxies to scale your environment effectivelyWork with custom integrations and the Zabbix APISet up advanced triggers and alertingMaintain your Zabbix setup for scaling, backups, and upgradesPerform advanced Zabbix database managementMonitor cloud-based products such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, and DockerWho this book is forThis book is for network and IT engineers who want to get started with Zabbix as well as those with an intermediate-level understanding of Zabbix looking to extend their knowledge. While prior experience with Zabbix is not a prerequisite, it will help you make the most of this book. Table of ContentsInstalling Zabbix and getting started using the frontendGetting things ready with Zabbix user managementSetting up Zabbix monitoringWorking with triggers and alertsBuilding your own structured templatesVisualizing data, Inventory, Reporting and Business service monitoringUsing discovery for automatic creationSetting up Zabbix proxies Integrating Zabbix with External servicesExtending Zabbix functionality with custom scripts and Zabbix APIMaintaining your Zabbix setupAdvanced Zabbix database managementBringing Zabbix to the cloud with Zabbix cloud integration.

PRACTICAL NETWORK SECURITY MONITORING 2nd Edition is intended to guide beginner through intermediate users how to use free software to collect, monitor, and analyze network traffic to detect and identify potential threats. Network Security Monitoring is complex but with a few tools and basic knowledge of your network, you can detect, identify, and defend against cyber threats to your network. This book provides practical exercises to learn how to use free software to identify threats to your network. The practical exercises provide step-by-step instructions allowing you to install, configure, and use the free tools.

This book is not intended to be an all-inclusive guide to defending your network and assets, but is intended to provide you with the hands-on experience to analyze your network traffic and determine if traffic is malicious. This edition covers Security Onion 2.3.2, which introduces several changes to the platform. Many of the practical exercises have been changed and include new intrusions, malware, and PCAP. An introduction of web based PCAP analysis tools was added. Additionally, a bonus “Test Your Knowledge” chapter was included that allows the reader to answer the question without instruction.

Accelerate cloud adoption using AWS CloudWatch, X-ray, Distro for OpenTelemetry, Amazon DevOps Guru, and more to monitor and build resilient systems. Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook. Key Features:. Gain a thorough understanding of observability principles along with different AWS service offerings and best practicesEnsure customer satisfaction by monitoring user experience and fixing bottlenecks quicklyLearn from experts to get the best possible insights into AWS' observability solutions. Book Description:.

As modern application architecture grows increasingly complex, identifying potential points of failure and measuring end user satisfaction, in addition to monitoring application availability, is key. This book helps you explore AWS observability tools that provide end-to-end visibility, enabling quick identification of performance bottlenecks in distributed applications. You'll gain a holistic view of monitoring and observability on AWS, starting from observability basics using Amazon CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray to advanced ML-powered tools such as AWS DevOps Guru. As you progress, you'll learn about AWS-managed open source services such as AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) and AWS managed Prometheus, Grafana, and the ELK Stack. You'll implement observability in EC2 instances, containers, Kubernetes, and serverless apps and grasp UX monitoring. With a fair mix of concepts and examples, this book helps you gain hands-on experience in implementing end-to-end AWS observability in your applications and navigating and troubleshooting performance issues with the help of use cases. You'll also learn best practices and guidelines, such as how observability relates to the Well-Architected Framework. By the end of this AWS book, you'll be able to implement observability and monitoring in your apps using AWS' native and managed open source tools in real-world scenarios. What You Will Learn:. Capture metrics from an EC2 instance and visualize them on a dashboardConduct distributed tracing using AWS X-RayDerive operational metrics and set up alerting using CloudWatchAchieve observability of containerized applications in ECS and EKSExplore the practical implementation of observability for AWS LambdaObserve your applications using Amazon managed Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenSearch servicesGain insights into operational data using ML services on AWSUnderstand the role of observability in the cloud adoption framework. Who this book is for:. This book is for SREs, DevOps and cloud engineers, and developers who are looking to achieve their observability targets using AWS native services and open source managed services on AWS. It will assist solution architects in achieving operational excellence by implementing cloud observability solutions for their workloads. Basic understanding of AWS cloud fundamentals and different AWS cloud services used to run applications such as EC2, container solutions such as ECS, and EKS will be helpful when using this book.