int column displays the number of interrupts.

system column contains interrupt related metric values.

send column displays received network traffic size.

recv column displays received network traffic size.

net/total column contains network-related metric values.

write column displays the read size from the disk.

read column displays the read size to the disk.

dsk/total columns display disk usage information.

wait column displays waiting for requests.

sys column displays the system-level CPU usage.

usr column displays the user level CPU usage.

total-cpu-usage column contains CPU related metric values.

Below we list the output metrics and their descriptions. For example if the CPU is completely idle or %100 free this metric is colored as white. This lists general monitoring metrics like CPU, disk, network, memory etc.įrom the output we can see that some metric values are colored in different than others. The dstat can be run without any parameter or option. Install dstat For CentOS, Fedora, RHEL: sudo dnf install dstat Run dstat Install dstat For Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, Kali: sudo apt install dstat

But can be installed easily by using the apt and yum package managers. The dstat is not installed by default in most of the Linux distributions.

Also, dstat provides a colored output which makes it more readable for metric changes. By using the dstat the disk usage network usage or CPU usage can be monitored in a single interface second by the second manner. It merges all these commands into a single command and a single screen in a readable and easy to follow way. The dstat command is a replacement for the vmstat, iostat, and ifstat command. But dstat is one of the most popular commands used by users and system administrators. Linux provides a lot of tools and commands to monitor performance and resource usage.

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