Sysstat

sysstat (system statistics) is a collection of performance monitoring tools for Linux. It is available on Unix and Unix-like operating systems. [1]


Software included in sysstat package:

  • sar [6], Collect, report, or save system activity information.
  • iostat (1) reports basic CPU statistics and input/output statistics for devices, partitions and network filesystems.
  • mpstat(1) reports individual or combined processor related statistics.
  • pidstat(1) reports statistics for Linux tasks (processes) : I/O, CPU, memory, etc.
  • nfsiostat(1) reports input/output statistics for network filesystems (NFS).
  • cifsiostat(1) reports I/O statistics for CIFS resources.
  1. ^ "SYSSTAT Howto: A Deployment and Configuration Guide for Linux Servers". Linux.com | The source for Linux information. 10 August 2009. Retrieved 4 September 2018.