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n_t

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Registered: 2013-02-01

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Monitoring the Linux Kernel

A lot of the software applications I have worked on were running at quite high loads and it's always been useful to track CPU usage, memory usage and for cache-based applications disk I/O. I normally use tools like New Relic to achieve this.

What I would love to know is how to monitor, and obviously understand. how all the other parts of my computer and OS are peforming. I don't deploy to arch linux, usually an Ubuntu or Debian, but the kernel is the kernel so I expect monitoring it to remain consistent.

So far I know about top and vmstat and even then I don't full understand all of the numbers and flags on those. It seems sensible that I should learn about the two commands, but what else is out there that you recommend I start learning about? How do you monitoring systems running on top of Linux?

qinohe

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Registered: 2012-06-20

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Re: Monitoring the Linux Kernel

Really I don't use New Rellic, I haven't even heard of it before, I was just about to say use Nagios or the like.
But looking at your quest again, you can always use programs from AUR (arch user repository)
Maybe this is what you're looking for https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&K=New+Relic

graysky

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Re: Monitoring the Linux Kernel

Monitorix in the AUR is nice and lightweight.

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qinohe

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Registered: 2012-06-20

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Re: Monitoring the Linux Kernel

Monitorix in the AUR is nice and lightweight.

If the OP likes it we'll see, but thank you for pointing to Monitorix, just tried it on server, very nice, indeed.

n_t

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Re: Monitoring the Linux Kernel

Looks interesting, thanks a lot.