How To Install sysstat.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install sysstat.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. sysstat.x86_64 is Collection of performance monitoring tools for Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sysstat.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `sysstat.x86_64`

The sysstat package contains sar, sadf, mpstat, iostat, pidstat, nfsiostat-sysstat, tapestat, cifsiostat and sa tools for Linux. The sar command collects and reports system activity information. This information can be saved in a file in a binary format for future inspection. The statistics reported by sar concern I/O transfer rates, paging activity, process-related activities, interrupts, network activity, memory and swap space utilization, CPU utilization, kernel activities and TTY statistics, among others. Both UP and SMP machines are fully supported. The sadf command may be used to display data collected by sar in various formats (CSV, XML, etc.). The iostat command reports CPU utilization and I/O statistics for disks. The tapestat command reports statistics for tapes connected to the system. The mpstat command reports global and per-processor statistics. The pidstat command reports statistics for Linux tasks (processes). The nfsiostat-sysstat command reports I/O statistics for network file systems. The cifsiostat command reports I/O statistics for CIFS file systems.

We can use yum to install sysstat.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sysstat.x86_64.

Install sysstat.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install sysstat.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sysstat.x86_64

How To Uninstall sysstat.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the sysstat.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove sysstat.x86_64

sysstat.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/cron.d/sysstat
/etc/sysconfig/sysstat
/etc/sysconfig/sysstat.ioconf
/usr/bin/cifsiostat
/usr/bin/iostat
/usr/bin/mpstat
/usr/bin/nfsiostat-sysstat
/usr/bin/pidstat
/usr/bin/sadf
/usr/bin/sar
/usr/bin/tapestat
/usr/lib/systemd/system/sysstat.service
/usr/lib64/sa
/usr/lib64/sa/sa1
/usr/lib64/sa/sa2
/usr/lib64/sa/sadc
/usr/share/doc/sysstat-10.1.5
/usr/share/doc/sysstat-10.1.5/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/sysstat-10.1.5/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/sysstat-10.1.5/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/sysstat-10.1.5/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/sysstat-10.1.5/README
/usr/share/doc/sysstat-10.1.5/sysstat-10.1.5.lsm
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/sysstat.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/sysstat.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/sysstat.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/sysstat.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/sysstat.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/sysstat.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/sysstat.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/sysstat.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/sysstat.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/sysstat.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/sysstat.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/sysstat.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/sysstat.mo
/usr/share/locale/ky/LC_MESSAGES/sysstat.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/sysstat.mo
/usr/share/locale/mt/LC_MESSAGES/sysstat.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/sysstat.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/sysstat.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/sysstat.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/sysstat.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/sysstat.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/sysstat.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/sysstat.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/sysstat.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/sysstat.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/sysstat.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/sysstat.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/sysstat.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/sysstat.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/sysstat.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/sysstat.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/cifsiostat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/iostat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mpstat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/nfsiostat-sysstat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pidstat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sadf.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sar.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tapestat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/sysstat.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/sa1.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/sa2.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/sadc.8.gz
/var/log/sa

References

sysstat.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sysstat.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.