performance monitoring

terti · External Since: May 11, 2006 Posts: 3

Hi there,

What is the most useful/popular system performance monitoring
tool/method for Linux ? I need to monitor server stats (CPU% / disk
caching / memory usage etc...) when doing a load test.

I would also like to display this information on a graph.

FYI... I've had a look at rstatd and top.
I was thinking of getting that info into a file and then manipulating it
with a spreadsheet.

Any other ideas ?

Thanks
T

Sybren Stuvel · External Since: Jul 06, 2005 Posts: 991

terti enlightened us with:
> What is the most useful/popular system performance monitoring
> tool/method for Linux ? I need to monitor server stats (CPU% / disk
> caching / memory usage etc...) when doing a load test.

SNMP is rather popular. Take a look at MRTG.

> I would also like to display this information on a graph.

That's what MRTG does Wink

Sybren
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terti · External Since: May 11, 2006 Posts: 3

Sybren Stuvel wrote:
> terti enlightened us with:
>> What is the most useful/popular system performance monitoring
>> tool/method for Linux ? I need to monitor server stats (CPU% / disk
>> caching / memory usage etc...) when doing a load test.
>
> SNMP is rather popular. Take a look at MRTG.
>
>> I would also like to display this information on a graph.
>
> That's what MRTG does Wink

>
> Sybren

I've had a look at MRTG but it looked like it only monitors network
traffic.

Thanks, I'll take another look Smile

chrs
T

Sybren Stuvel · External Since: Jul 06, 2005 Posts: 991

terti enlightened us with:
> I've had a look at MRTG but it looked like it only monitors network
> traffic.

I've used it for CPU, free RAM and swap usage monitoring too.

Sybren
--
The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
Frank Zappa

Robercik · External Since: May 11, 2006 Posts: 1

terti wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> What is the most useful/popular system performance monitoring
> tool/method for Linux ? I need to monitor server stats (CPU% / disk
> caching / memory usage etc...) when doing a load test.
>
> I would also like to display this information on a graph.
>
> FYI... I've had a look at rstatd and top.
> I was thinking of getting that info into a file and then manipulating it
> with a spreadsheet.
>
> Any other ideas ?
>
> Thanks
> T
MRTG is sux , take look at Cacti.

terti · External Since: May 11, 2006 Posts: 3

Michael Perry wrote:
> On Thu, 11 May 2006 14:16:12 +0200, terti <terti.DeleteThis@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> What is the most useful/popular system performance monitoring
>> tool/method for Linux ? I need to monitor server stats (CPU% / disk
>> caching / memory usage etc...) when doing a load test.
>>
>> I would also like to display this information on a graph.
>>
>> FYI... I've had a look at rstatd and top.
>> I was thinking of getting that info into a file and then manipulating it
>> with a spreadsheet.
>>
>> Any other ideas ?
>>
>> Thanks
>> T
>
> You could also look at something like Nagios. I've deployed Nagios on
> hundreds of servers and had alerting to a variety of devices, pretty
> flexible configurations, etc.
>
> There is also a performancing monitoring tool for databases called
> ganglia that you may want to check out if you have a database servers.
>

Thanks to all the advise.

I'll check it all out

rgds,
T

Darklight · External Since: Apr 18, 2004 Posts: 161

terti wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> What is the most useful/popular system performance monitoring
> tool/method for Linux ? I need to monitor server stats (CPU% / disk
> caching / memory usage etc...) when doing a load test.
>
> I would also like to display this information on a graph.
>
> FYI... I've had a look at rstatd and top.
> I was thinking of getting that info into a file and then manipulating it
> with a spreadsheet.
>
> Any other ideas ?
>
> Thanks
> T

if i got this right kde system guard might do what your looking for. or i
use gkrellm