Video Tutorial: How to monitor your server/vps resources with kSar

[subigo]

We made this video a few days ago and I figured I'd put it up here for you guys. If you've never heard of sysstat/kSar, it's basically a way to view all of your system resources (cpu load, ram, data transfer, etc) via a nice little desktop application in graphs.

YouTube - ZenSix Hosting: How to use kSar to monitor your VPS resource usage

(watch in HD for a better view)

 

[PHPRight]

Hmm.... login to SSH and type top

Works like a charm

 

[kblessinggr]

Hmm.... login to SSH and type top

Works like a charm

To add to that, sometimes you may just want to see who is connected and how many connections they have.

netstat -anp |grep 'tcp\|udp' | awk '{print $5}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

That will return a list from lowest connections to highest for each IP/host.

 

[subigo]

Hmm.... login to SSH and type top

Works like a charm

TOP is fine if you just need to monitor something in real time for a short period. kSar is better because it logs everything 24/7 and gives you a ton of data. You can go back up to 30 days and pull load information for any second/minute/hour/day...

 

[bangweb]

Nice video, what apps did you use to make the video?

 

[subigo]

Nice video, what apps did you use to make the video?

Camtasia Studio