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server-watch

Server-watch is a project mainly written in Python, it's free.

Script to monitor server side variables for logging while testing, etc.

Server Watch

This is script setup to allow for easy logging of various server level statistics that is useful when doing system profiling and load testing.

This is a simple Python script that can be run via

./server-watch.py

This logs the desired values to stdout. Those can be redirected to a file as:

./server-watch.py > /tmp/server-data.log

There are a few command line options to customize the behavior

-c, --config config file

Specifies which config file to use
-a, --apache

Enable apache connection monitoring
-m, --mysql

Enable mysql monitoring
-d, --delimeter delimeter

What string to use as a delimeter for the log file, defaults to a tab
-s, --seconds delay

How many seconds to delay b/w report rows, defaults to 1 second

There are a few sections in the configuration file

This controls the output columns in the log file a sample configuration looks like

[log]
format = 1 11 12 13

format

Format is a space delineated listing of the columns to appear in the output rows.

The following fields are available for logging:

This controls the connection info to MySQL

[mysql]
host = localhost
user = root
password = root