High Fibre Programming » cvs http://www.4pmp.com PHP, MySQL, C, Java, Linux and other great after dinner speech topics Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:10:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 Logging and monitoring server load http://www.4pmp.com/2009/09/logging-and-monitoring-server-load/ http://www.4pmp.com/2009/09/logging-and-monitoring-server-load/#comments Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:42:35 +0000 Nick http://www.4pmp.com/?p=46 We decided it would be a good idea to be able to periodically log server load so we can identify potential problems So I wrote a little script that outputs the current server load along with a timestamp in CSV format which can easily be called via CRON and send the output to a log file which can then be imported into a spreadsheet.

getload.c

Just compile it and run it. The output should be something like:

"1251834476","0.21"

It turns out that Nagios logs server load anyway, but not quite as accurately as this.

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