Saturday, 7 June 2025

atop

  •  Store information about the system and process activity in binary  compressed form to a file with an interval of ten minutes during an hour:
    • atop -w /tmp/atop.raw 600 6
  • View the contents of this file interactively:
    • atop -r /tmp/atop.raw
    • Jump one interval forward by pressing “t”, to go backward press “T”. To jump to a specified time, press “b”.
  • Ubuntu package contains atop.service which will log the samples into /var/log/atop/atop_YYYYMMDD log files with interval 600.

ccze

 ccze - log colorizer  sudo tail -f /var/log/syslog | ccze