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Monitoring iostat performance

list Benjamin Smith
Wed, 29 Jan 2014 14:55:41 -0800
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Recently, we had a publicly visible outtage as a result of one of our load balancers exceeding the IOPS capability of its system drives. We'd like to extend xymon (currently installed on CentOS6 /32 with defaults) so that it can monitor IOPS for all servers.

Specifically, we'd like to see wrqm/s and probably %util. What's the most straightforward way to accomplish this? The other alternative is to create some form of internal script, which is doable but not preferable if there's an off-the-shelf tool available.

-Ben