System Activity Report (sar
) is a Unix System V-derived system monitor command used to report on various system loads, including CPU activity, memory/paging, interrupts, device load, network and swap space utilization. Sar uses /proc
filesystem for gathering information.[3]
Stable release | sysstat 12.1.1[1]
/ October 13, 2018 |
---|---|
Preview release | sysstat 11.7.4
/ June 1, 2018[2] |
Repository | github |
Written in | C |
Operating system | AIX, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX |
Type | System reporting |
Website | sebastien |
Sar was originally developed for the Unix System V operating system; it is available in AIX, HP-UX, Solaris and other System V based operating systems but it is not available for macOS or FreeBSD. Prior to 2013 there was a bsdsar
tool, but it is now deprecated.[4]
Most Linux distributions provide sar
utility through the sysstat
package.
sar [-flags] [ -e time ] [ -f filename ] [-i sec ] [ -s time ]
[user@localhost]$ sar # Displays current CPU activity.
Additional to sar
command, Linux sysstat package in Debian,[5] RedHat Enterprise Linux and SuSE provides additional reporting tools:
sar
, supporting the same flags as sar
command which write a daily report in the /var/log/sa directory. – Linux Administration and Privileged Commands Manualsar
but can write its data in different formats (CSV, XML, etc.). This is useful to load performance data into a database, or import them in a spreadsheet to make graphs.sag - system activity graph [...] DESCRIPTION sag graphically displays the system activity data stored in a binary data file by a previous sar(1) run.