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Version: Cloud

Monitor File Stats

The fileStats Metric plugin is an agent-based plugin that collects the following data

  • system allocated file handles

  • system file allocated unused handles

  • system max file handles

  • system used file handles

  • system used file handles percentage

  • free inodes for each mounted directory

  • total inodes for each mounted directory

  • used inodes for each mounted directory

  • used inodes percentage for each mounted directory

Centos: 7.x

RHEL: 7.x

Ubuntu: 14.x, 16.x

Prerequisites - Install sysstat command​

  • sfAgent must be installed

  • The fileStats plugin requires sysstat to be installed

To install Sysstat in CentOS/RHEL:

 sudo yum install sysstat

To install Sysstat in Ubuntu OS:

 sudo apt install sysstat

Agent Configuration

Add the configuration shown below to config.yaml under /opt/sfagent/ directory

Default config

 key: <profile_key> 
tags: 
  Name: <name> 
  appName: <app_name> 
  projectName: <project_name> 
metrics: 
  plugins: 
     - name: fileStats
       group_name: linux
       enabled: true

Viewing data and dashboards​

  • Data collected by plugin can be viewed in SnappyFlow’s browse data section under metrics

    • plugin=fileStats
    • documentType=fileStats and documentType=inodeStats

  • Dashboard of fileStats data can be rendered using Template= Linux_CPULoad

  • Alert of fileStats data can be rendered using Template= HighInodeUsage