linux-stats-dashboard

local system monitoring dashboard for linux

• © 2010-2011 Corey Goldberg
• https://github.com/cgoldberg/linux-stats-dashboard

Info

• collects and graphs basic operating system stats
• stores data in RRD (round-robin database)
• generates .png images of plots/stats
• run this script at regular intervals with a task/job scheduler
• requires: python 2.x, rrdtool, linux 2.6+

Instructions

• configure the script settings:

  • NET_INTERFACE: network device namde
  • DISK: storage device name
  • INTERVAL: collection interval in secs (how often the script is run)
  • GRAPH_MINS: timespans for graph/png files
  • GRAPH_DIR: output directory for png images
    • perhaps under '/var/www/'
    • make sure directory is writable
  • STORAGE_DIR: output directory for rrd database files
    • make sure directory is writable

• make the script executable:

  $ chmod +x stats2rrd.py
  

• add an entry to your crontab (crontab -e) so cron will run it.

• example crontab entry using a 60 sec (1 min) interval:

  */1 * * * * /home/corey/linux-stats-dashboard/stats2rrd.py
  

Stats Collected

• cpu_percent: processor utilization
• mem_used: physical memory usage
• net_bps_in: network throughput (bps in)
• net_bps_out: network throughput (bps out)
• load_avg: system load average (1 min)
• disk_busy_percent: disk busy doing i/o

Dependencies

• linux 2.6+
• python 2.x
• rrdtool

License

• This is Free Open Source Software.
• OSI Approved :: MIT License

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