Software:sar (Unix)

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Short description: Unix command to collect, report or save system activity information

sar
Stable release
sysstat 12.1.1[1] / October 13, 2018; 5 years ago (2018-10-13)
Preview release
sysstat 11.7.4 / June 1, 2018; 6 years ago (2018-06-01) [2]
Repositorygithub.com/sysstat/sysstat/
Written inC
Operating systemAIX, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX
TypeSystem reporting
Websitesebastien.godard.pagesperso-orange.fr//
Called regularly by cron, sadc does the monitoring and stores its measurements to files in the /var/log/sa/ folder. The sar client can be used to explore this data.

System Activity Report (sar) is a Unix System V-derived system monitor command used to report on various system loads, including CPU activity, memory/paging, interrupts, device load, network and swap space utilization. Sar uses /proc filesystem for gathering information.[3]

Platform support

Sar was originally developed for the Unix System V operating system; it is available in AIX, HP-UX, Solaris and other System V based operating systems but it is not available for macOS or FreeBSD. Prior to 2013 there was a bsdsar tool, but it is now deprecated.[4]

Most Linux distributions provide sar utility through the sysstat package.

Syntax

sar [-flags] [ -e time ] [ -f filename ] [-i sec ] [ -s time ]
-f
filename Uses filename as the data source for sar. The default is the current daily data file /var/adm/sa/sadd.
-e
time Selects data up to time. The default is 18:00.
-i
sec Selects data at intervals as close as possible to sec seconds.

Example

[user@localhost]$ sar  # Displays current CPU activity.

Sysstat package

Additional to sar command, Linux sysstat package in Debian,[5] RedHat Enterprise Linux and SuSE provides additional reporting tools:

See also

  • atopsar
  • Nmon
  • sag - "system activity graph" command[6]
  • ksar- BSD licensed Java-based application to create graph of all parameters from the data collected by Unix sar utilities.
  • CURT, IBM AIX CPU Usage Reporting Tool
  • isag, tcl based command to plot sar/sysstat data

References

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