Comments on: 20 Useful Commands of ‘Sysstat’ Utilities (mpstat, pidstat, iostat and sar) for Linux Performance Monitoring

By: Sumit Kumar

Sumit Kumar — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 08:45:11 +0000

Great tutorial. You could also analyze sar report to get charts and aggregated data. For that we can follow https://github.com/sumitbiswasgit/sarbox

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 05:18:24 +0000

In reply to Mark.

@Mark,

Thanks for informing about that error, yes it was actually “safd” command. Corrected in the article.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 15:31:52 +0000

I hesitate to comment on an old post but I did notice that on 20. Using ‘sadf’ the example for some reasons shows the cmd as ‘safd’ so initially I thought I didn’t have the package available. Otherwise very useful post.

By: Kuldeep

Kuldeep — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 14:01:16 +0000

In reply to Sayyad.

Hi Sayyad,
8.1.5 seems quit old and at same time it was not stable release.
I would suggest to update the same and check results.

More Detail: http://sebastien.godard.pagesperso-orange.fr/download.html

Thanks// Kuldeep

By: Sayyad

Sayyad — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 12:18:27 +0000

Hi Kuldeep,

Thanks for the good info on SAR..,Not sure if this is a right platform to talk about problem with Sar version 8.1.5.
One of the issues with sar is that the “sar -A” command gives the datestamp exactly past one month in the first line of the output..
Any suggestion/help would be much appreciated..

Thanks,
-Sayyad