I need to monitor the Disk Latency on a Linux Server. One way I thought of was to simply copy a large file every time and use how long it took as my measure.
How to monitor Disk Latency on a Linux Server
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Hi,
you may use the command "iostat" in addition to a "custom" SSH Sensor hack. Thne you may just parse the output to get the values you want:
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