Install Cockpit on CentOS 7 – A Web Based System Monitoring Tool

ockpit is a free, open source, system monitoring application. It is ideal for monitoring basic services and system health and works perfectly fine. It lets you start/stop or monitor services using both web based interface and command line. If any service is erroring, you can see the error in Cockpit web browser interface. It lets you monitor multiple servers using a single web interface, simply install cockpit on all of your systems and add them into a single web interface. It is a very useful tool for beginner system administrators and lets them monitor almost all important aspects of their system’s health. It is primarily designed to run on CentOS, Fedora and Redhat Enterprise Linux operating systems. It is not yet supported for Debian based systems.