[Novalug] sar grapher?

Chuck Payne terrorpup@gmail.com
Thu Sep 27 18:35:19 EDT 2012


On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Mark Smith <mark@winksmith.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 06:04:10PM -0400, Chuck Payne wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Mark Smith <mark@winksmith.com> wrote:
>> > anyone know of any graphing tools for system performance?  i need to be
>> > able to graph realtime performance for diagnosis and to be able to grab
>> > a snapshot of now for recording along with a performance test metric
>> > data point.
>> >
>> > most of the tools out there seem to be only interested in the admin point
>> > of view (is it up, does it have free disk, does it have free memory, how
>> > many bytes are transfering on its network, ...).  i'm not interested in
>> > the admin point of view, but in a performance point of view (think sar).
>> >
>> > i also want it to be able to expand on custom application layer stuff
>> > (e.g. how many data buffers being processed between to components in
>> > my software) and other application layer stuff such as how well is my
>> > postgres/mysql/sqlite database performing, etc.
>> >
>> > ksar seems to be the best match so far, but it's far from ideal.  it's not
>> > expandable, but worse of all it's hot wet java goodness crashes when it
>> > gets more than 150MB worth of data.
>> >
>> > i can grab a snapshot of current performance metrics just by running
>> > 'sadf' and processing the XML into usable SQL, but it doesn't include
>> > any application layer stuff.
>> >
>> > hyperic is a monstrosity.  it needs a server.  data is transferred from
>> > the system under test to the server and you can view it from there.
>> > i need to be able to take a snapshot of what is happening "now."  this
>> > value gets stored in a database alone with a particular metric point.
>> > hyperic makes this hard to do.
>> >
>> > certainly, someone here must have experience with this?
>>
>> Ksar, it works on any box as long as you have java.
>
> do you work around the 150MB limit where it crashes?
>
> --
> Mark Smith
> mark@winksmith.com
> mark@tux.org

Sorry, no. I haven't had issues with it.

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