How to use SAR to Monitor System Performance in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue
- What tool can I use to monitor the health of my system?
- How to use SAR (System Activity Reporter) from the sysstat package to Monitor System Performance in Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS
- How to view average and historical CPU and memory usage on a system
- How to track system performance
- How to collect system performance data with SAR
- What monitoring tool can check for high load and other causes of system slow down or hangs?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
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