NixCraft is one of the best Unix/Linux admin blogs on the next. Sometimes it feels like half the time I do a search for a Linux command or issue, NixCraft comes up. I hope the author is rich and working a great job, because the value he provides for free is just fantastic. This is one of my favorite posts on the site. It’s called 20 Linux Tools Every Admin Should Know. An except from the article is below:
Quoting: “Need to monitor Linux server performance? Try these built-in command and a few add-on tools. Most Linux distributions are equipped with tons of monitoring. These tools provide metrics which can be used to get information about system activities. You can use these tools to find the possible causes of a performance problem. The commands discussed below are some of the most basic commands when it comes to system analysis and debugging server issues such as:
- Finding out bottlenecks.
- Disk (storage) bottlenecks.
- CPU and memory bottlenecks.
- Network bottlenecks.”
