What Is Cockpit

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∟What Is Cockpit

This section provides a quick introduction of what is Cockpit, a Web portal for Linux system administration.

What Is Cockpit? - Cockpit is a Web portal that allows administrators to carry out administrative tasks on Linux systems remotely through a Web browser.

Cockpit offers the following functionalities:

System - A dashboard showing system statistics including CPU, Memory, Disk I/O, Network Traffic, etc.
Logs - A list of messages from the system log file with filters.
Storage - A dashboard showing statistics of hard disks, partitions and other storage devices, with reading and writing speeds.
Networking - A tool to view networking statistics and manage firewall rule settings.
Podman Containers - A tool to manage Podman containers as Linux sub-systems.
Accounts - A tool to manage user accounts including password change and other functions.
Services - A tool to manage system services including service start/stop and other functions.
Applications - A tool to manage Cockpit applications including Podman, Storage and others.
Diagnostic Reports - A tool to generate diagnostic reports on the Linux system including information on mounted file systems, running services, connected devices, loaded modules, etc.
Kernel Dump - A tool to monitor kernel dump service status.
SELinux - A tool to view and manage SELinux related error messages.
Software Updates - A tool to view installed software packages and manage their updates.