mstats

a simple script to collect OS level performance metrics for Linux metrics include:

• CPU
• filesystem
• diskstats (io metrics)
• network protocol (tcp, udp, ip)
• network interface stats
• load average
• per-process stats like user/sys CPU, I/O requests, page fault etc.

requirements

Python 2.6+ (not sure if 3.0 works, I haven't test it), which should be included in most Linux distro by default

usage

python mstats -h
Usage: mstats [options]

Options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -c FILE, --config=FILE
                        configuration file (no default value)
  -l LOGLEVEL, --loglevel=LOGLEVEL
                        set log level, can be debug, info, warn, error or
                        critical (default warn)

configuration

see mstats.json.example, remember to remove comments

installation

copy/download the mstats file to somewhere on your target machine, modify the mstats.json file and run the script:

python mstats -c mstats.json >> mstats.log

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