So it turns out… you can’t connect them anymore… The feature is deprecated

https://docs.cockpit-project.org/cockpit-guide/latest/guide/feature-machines.html

(also, I wanted to just link my response from another user who had asimilar question but for whateVER reasyon, Alx won’t let me??)

So I actually just went to make a guide on this, demonstrating on my ubuntu 26.04 lab vps, and it appears the connect option is not there.

However on my 24.04 lab vps, it’s there. Same with my local 22.04 systems (yes I know I have to upgrade lmao)

I went to cockpit docks and sure enough, the feature is deprecated :( Dang.

https://docs.cockpit-project.org/cockpit-guide/latest/guide/feature-machines.html

It was really cool though while it worked.

Cockpit. Total gamechanger for me. I don’t have to ssh to my boxes individually to see what’s going on. Instead it’s a web UI AND you can connect basically every server you want to one instance.

https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit

That said. For individual servers?

htop/nmon (Get nmon straight from the source! https://nmon.sourceforge.io/pmwiki.php) for a birds-eye sysmon view of things

ps -ef | grep <whatever you're looking for> for investigating stuck/hung/zombie processes

dmseg

tail -f /var/log (or whatever log file you care about)

netstat for net statistics (i think ntop used to be a thing but idk anymore>…)

df -h to look at disk usage

those are all that come to mind right away.

EDIT: formatting and quick explanation of what each tool does

Got me lmaooooo this one’s good!

Meta

Literally how I post. Idgaf about the algorithm or whatever.

I bought one for both reasons…

No, I think Jenga’s a game…