Introducing sbstats (DevOps performance tracking)

For many years now, I have been capturing vmstat output and displaying it in a graphical LAMP solution.  It can load quickly into various graphing images that can be easily pulled down to your computer to annotate, or attached directly into emails.

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The page above shows many servers, one after another, in an easy-to-view stream.  Each line of graphs represents one week, so that one can quickly learn “the story” of how a server has been performing over time.  Memory leaks and i/o waits are especially easy to spot.  But the interface is also flexible enough to handle other data, provided that it is saved in the correct format.

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