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Create simple graphs from Sysstat data
https://github.com/noahbailey/sachart

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Create simple graphs from Sysstat data

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# SaChart

This tool's objective is to answer the question, "Was the CPU load high last night when Foobar broke?" in a simple way that does not require complex monitoring systems. In conjunction with the lightweight `sysstat` daemon, this tool makes easy to read histograms in your shell.

There are two modes, CPU and NET mode.

CPU mode shows the data you're used to seeing in tools like `htop`, processor usage, memory usage, and per-core load average. NET mode displays total network throughput on all interfaces as a proportion of the highest measured value, and the system's run queue and blocked threads.

Output:

`./sachart -cpu`

```
TIME | CPU | MEMORY | LOAD AVG
13:10:01 |@###### |**** ||||
13:15:01 |@###### |**** |||||
13:20:01 |@####### |**** |||||
13:25:01 |@####### |**** |||||
13:30:01 |@####### |**** ||||||
13:35:01 |## |**** ||||
13:40:01 | |**** ||
13:45:01 | |**** |
```

`./sachart -net`

```
TIME | DOWNLOAD | UPLOAD | IO (RunQ + Blocked)
13:10:01 |=================== |======================== |
13:15:01 |================= |======================== |--------------
13:20:01 |===================== |========================= |--------
13:25:01 |========================= |======================== |-
13:30:01 |======================= |======================== |---
13:35:01 |===== |===== |--
13:40:01 | | |
13:45:01 | | |
```

Previous days data can also be viewed by using the `-days` flag. For example, to see yesterday's CPU graph:

`./sachart -cpu -days 1`

```
TIME | CPU | MEMORY | LOAD AVG
13:20:02 | |* |
13:25:01 |# |**** |
13:30:01 |# |**** |
13:35:01 |# |**** ||
13:40:01 |@## |**** |||
```

## Sysstat setup

Make sure sysstat is installed:

sudo apt install sysstat

The service should be running:

sudo systemctl enable --now sysstat.service

And data collection should be enabled:

sudo sed -i 's/false/true/g' /etc/default/sysstat