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Chapter 10. Performance and Scalability
Performance Co-Pilot (PCP)
Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) provides a framework and services to support system-level performance monitoring and management. Its light-weight, distributed architecture makes it particularly well-suited to centralized analysis of complex systems.
Performance metrics can be added using the Python, Perl, C++ and C interfaces. Analysis tools can use the client APIs (Python, C++, C) directly, and rich web applications can explore all available performance data using a JSON interface.
For further information, consult the extensive man pages in the pcp and pcp-libs-devel packages. The pcp-doc package installs documentation in the
/usr/share/doc/pcp-doc/*
directory, which also includes these two free and open books from the upstream project: