You're the new Junior Sysadmin at a small but busy tech startup. It's your first week on the job, and you've just been asked to monitor, troubleshoot, and control running processes on the company's servers. In this guide, you’ll learn how to monitor and manage Linux processes through hands-on examples. We’ll create dummy processes, explore real-time tools, and learn how to gently—or forcefully—handle misbehaving tasks.

You're the new Junior Sysadmin at a small but busy tech startup. It's your first week on the job, and you've just been asked to monitor, troubleshoot, and control running processes on the company's servers.
In this guide, you’ll learn how to monitor and manage Linux processes through hands-on examples. We’ll create dummy processes, explore real-time tools, and learn how to gently—or forcefully—handle misbehaving tasks.