NetHogs is a opensource tools to monitor network bandwidth that was used by the process and program in linux operating system. NetHogs does not rely on a special kernel module to be loaded. When you hit the high network traffic issue on your linux server, you can immediately find which PID is causing the issue. […]
Collectl is a linux performance monitoring tools that grabs as much detail as possible from the /proc filesystem and it does a lot more than most other tools. Compare to sar, collectl has some capabilities that sar does not have. Collectl can gather and post-process the performance data and also can save the performance data […]
In this post i will show how to install sysstat on Linux CentOS 5.7 server. Sysstat package is on of the method to monitor the linux server. sysstat package contains the sar, iostat and mpstat which are the system performance tools for Linux operating system. The sar command collects and reports system activity information. The […]
vmstat command is a utility that will provides interesting information abaout processes, memory, i/O and CPU activity. When you run vmstat utility command without any arguments, you will see the output as below. This post will guide you on how to check memory and I/O with vmstat on Linux CentOS 5/CentOS 6/RHEL 5/RHEL 6 server […]
Top command is utility to monitor system activity interactively. When you run top from shell window, it will display all the activity processes and updates the screen. In this post i will show the usage of top command on CentOS 5/CentOS 6/RHEL 5/ RHEL 6 server to keep track system activity and to optimize the […]