Use dstat on command line for quick system resource stat collection

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Posted: February 4, 2014 | Author: Chris | Filed under: Linux |Leave a comment


 dstat -tv --output /tmp/${HOSTNAME}-dstat-$(date +"%Y%m%d-%H%M%S").csv 10

Starts a dstat process at 10 second intervals and writes output to /tmp called <hostname>-dstat-yyyymmdd-hhmmss.csv &

Kill it with

kill `ps -ef | grep dstat | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`

This csv file is easy to open in a Excel to chart performance metrics. Consider adding to a script for automation.

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