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sysstat/sysstat

Performance monitoring tools for Linux observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/sysstat/sysstat · homepage · C · GPL-2.0 (copyleft) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

77/100

  • Activity 99
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_releases

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 4878
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 10
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

3361 stars · 485 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Sysstat is a collection of Linux performance monitoring utilities including sar, iostat, mpstat, pidstat, tapestat, and cifsiostat. It collects, reports, and historizes system activity data such as CPU, memory, disk I/O, and network statistics, with export to CSV, XML, JSON, and SVG formats.

Use cases

  • monitor cpu and disk io usage on a linux server
  • collect historical system performance data with sar
  • find which process is consuming cpu or memory with pidstat
  • export system activity metrics to or csv
  • troubleshoot slow disk io on linux
  • generate graphs of server activity over time

When to choose

  • you need lightweight, native Linux performance monitoring from the command line
  • you want to historize system activity data via cron or systemd for later analysis
  • you need per-CPU, per-device, or per-process statistics without installing agents

When to avoid

  • you need monitoring of non-Linux systems
  • you want a web dashboard or alerting system rather than CLI tools
  • you need application-level or container-level metrics

Facets

cli-tool · maturity stable

monitoring analytics monitoring performance cli sar iostat mpstat pidstat system-performance historical-data-collection devops command-line linux

2 sources

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
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