How to troubleshoot VPS OOM issues
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How to troubleshoot VPS OOM issues

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  journalctl -b -1 -n 500  # < the number of lines to go back

Since I was a little tardy in scanning and checking the logs, I had to go back around 2000 lines to see what was up

journalctl -b -1 -n 2000

Solution is to install fail2ban and fix the service under duress. Not going to explain any further as I would like to keep the egg off my face 🍳 🤓

sudo apt install fail2ban

# to check fail2ban events:

fail2ban-client status <daemon/process name>