Linux Performance Monitoring & Analysis – Hands On !!

Linux Performance Monitoring & Analysis – Hands On !!, available at $69.99, has an average rating of 4.12, with 67 lectures, 3 quizzes, based on 1080 reviews, and has 6654 subscribers.

You will learn about Familiar with monitoring tools Familiar with subsystems like CPU/Memory/IO/Network Hands-On labs with examples. High Memory Utilization causing performance issues. High CPU Utilization causing performance issues. Network Utilization (Packet loss, errors) causing performance issues. High Disk IO Utilization causing performance issues. Familiar with tcpdump – Network Packet Analyzer Familiar with lsof – List open files Linux Find commands with various examples Command to list out top processes consuming highest memory utilization Command to list out top processes consuming highest cpu utilization Viewing Hardware Resources Configuring Kernel Tunables Managing Resource Limits Proc File System Sysfs File System Kernel Modules lsof, tcpdump commands This course is ideal for individuals who are Anyone can join this course module who is willing to get some knowledge and understanding on performance monitoring & tuning in Linux Administration It is particularly useful for Anyone can join this course module who is willing to get some knowledge and understanding on performance monitoring & tuning in Linux Administration.

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Summary

Title: Linux Performance Monitoring & Analysis – Hands On !!

Price: $69.99

Average Rating: 4.12

Number of Lectures: 67

Number of Quizzes: 3

Number of Published Lectures: 67

Number of Published Quizzes: 3

Number of Curriculum Items: 71

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 71

Original Price: ₹799

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Familiar with monitoring tools
Familiar with subsystems like CPU/Memory/IO/Network
Hands-On labs with examples.
High Memory Utilization causing performance issues.
High CPU Utilization causing performance issues.
Network Utilization (Packet loss, errors) causing performance issues.
High Disk IO Utilization causing performance issues.
Familiar with tcpdump – Network Packet Analyzer
Familiar with lsof – List open files
Linux Find commands with various examples
Command to list out top processes consuming highest memory utilization
Command to list out top processes consuming highest cpu utilization
Viewing Hardware Resources
Configuring Kernel Tunables
Managing Resource Limits
Proc File System
Sysfs File System
Kernel Modules
lsof, tcpdump commands

Who Should Attend

Anyone can join this course module who is willing to get some knowledge and understanding on performance monitoring & tuning in Linux Administration

Target Audiences

Anyone can join this course module who is willing to get some knowledge and understanding on performance monitoring & tuning in Linux Administration

Course Contents

Linux Performance Monitoring & Tuning

Introduction about Performance monitoring in Linux

Monitoring Processes using ps command
Monitoring Processes using top command
Monitoring memory usage
Monitoring File System Usage
GNOME System Monitor
Practice Lab Session
Overview Sysstat Package Utilities
Lab – Iostat command
Lab – mpstat command
Lab – pidstat command
Overview SAR
Advantages of SAR
Lab – SAR
Scheduling tasks with Systemd timer
Monitoring Systems using Cockpit
Monitoring Systems using performance co-pilot

Familiar with various Commands to manage performance issues in Linux Servers

top
vmstat
iostat
free
lsof
tcpdump- Network Packet Analyzer

Following are the Linux performance statistics using sar command.

Collective CPU usage
Individual CPU statistics
Memory used and available
Swap space used and available
Overall I/O activities of the system
Individual device I/O activities
Run queue and load average data
Network statistics
Report sar data from a specific time

Viewing Hardware Resources

Viewing kernel messages using dmesg command
Retrieving CPU Information
Retrieving DMI Information – dmidecode
Retrieving peripheral Information
hwloc & lshw command

Configuring Kernel Tunables

Proc File System
Kernel Tunables
Modifying Kernel Tunables
Modify Kernel Tunables Using Sysctl Command
Modify Kernel Tunables Persistently
Sysfs File System
About Kernel Modules
Practice Lab Session
Overview about tuning profiles
Managing profiles from the command line
Lab Session – Tuning profile

Managing Resource Limits

Limiting System Resources with ulimit
Configuring Persistent ulimit Rules
Practice Lab Session
Setting Limits for Services
Lab – Configure the service with a cgroup

Process Management

Understanding ps commands with custom properties & Nice values etc
Different stats of a process like “D”, “S”, “T”, “Z” etc
Kill commands to terminate the process
Lab

Linux Find Commands

Basic find commands for finding files with names
Find files based on their permissions
Search files based on owners & groups
Find files and directories based on date & time
Find files and directories based on size

Top Running Processes

Command to list out top processes consuming highest memory utilization
Command to list out top processes consuming highest cpu utilization

Lab on lsof – List open files & fuser

lsof command used in many Linux/Unix like system that is used to display list of all the open files and the processes.

Lab on tcpdump- Network Packet Analyzer

For example: number of packets received (transmitted) through the network card, statistics of packet failure etc

Practice Lab Sessions

Practical Lab Session – High CPU Utilization
Practical Lab Session – High Memory Utilization

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction – Monitoring the system using different useful tools.

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Monitoring processes using ps command

Lecture 3: Monitoring processes using top command

Lecture 4: Monitoring processes using top command – 2

Lecture 5: Monitoring memory usage

Lecture 6: Monitoring File System Usage

Lecture 7: GNOME System Monitor

Lecture 8: Practice Lab Session

Lecture 9: Overview Sysstat Package Utilities

Lecture 10: Lab – Iostat command

Lecture 11: Lab – mpstat command

Lecture 12: Lab – pidstat command

Lecture 13: Overview SAR

Lecture 14: Advantages of SAR

Lecture 15: Lab – SAR

Lecture 16: Scheduling tasks with Systemd timer

Lecture 17: Monitoring Systems using Cockpit

Lecture 18: Monitoring Systems using performance co-pilot

Chapter 2: Viewing Hardware Resources

Lecture 1: Kernel messages using dmesg command

Lecture 2: Retrieving CPU Information

Lecture 3: Retrieving DMI Information – dmidecode

Lecture 4: Retrieving peripheral Information

Lecture 5: hwloc & lshw command

Chapter 3: Configuring Kernel Tunables

Lecture 1: Proc File System

Lecture 2: Kernel Tunables

Lecture 3: Modifying Kernel Tunables

Lecture 4: Modify Kernel Tunables Using Sysctl Command

Lecture 5: Modify Kernel Tunables Persistently

Lecture 6: Sysfs File System

Lecture 7: About Kernel Modules

Lecture 8: Practice Lab Session – 1

Lecture 9: Practice Lab Session – 2

Lecture 10: Overview about tuning profiles

Lecture 11: Managing profiles from the command line

Lecture 12: Lab Session – Tuning profile

Chapter 4: Managing Resource Limits

Lecture 1: Limiting System Resources with ulimit

Lecture 2: Configuring Persistent ulimit Rules

Lecture 3: Practice Lab Session

Lecture 4: Setting Limits for Services

Lecture 5: Practice Lab Session

Chapter 5: Subsystems that needs to be monitored

Lecture 1: CPU – Context Switch

Lecture 2: CPU – run queue, load average

Lecture 3: Memory & Swap management on Linux Servers

Lecture 4: Disk IO Operations on Linux Servers

Lecture 5: Monitoring & Understanding Network

Chapter 6: Commands to manage performance issues in Linux Servers

Lecture 1: Process Management

Lecture 2: Background and Foreground Processes

Lecture 3: process stats

Lecture 4: Lab 1

Lecture 5: Lab 2

Lecture 6: Lab 3

Chapter 7: lsof – List open files & fuser

Lecture 1: lsof – List open files

Lecture 2: lsof – Lab 1

Lecture 3: lsof – lab 2

Lecture 4: fuser

Chapter 8: tcpdump – Network Packet Analyzer

Lecture 1: tcpdump-Network Packet Analyzer

Lecture 2: Lab 1

Lecture 3: Lab 2

Chapter 9: Basic Find Commands in Linux

Lecture 1: Find commands for finding files

Lecture 2: find files based on their permissions, owner & groups

Lecture 3: Find files & directories based on date,time & size

Lecture 4: Lab-1

Lecture 5: Lab-2

Lecture 6: Lab-3

Chapter 10: Top Running Processes

Lecture 1: Practical Lab Session – High CPU Utilization

Lecture 2: Practical Lab Session – Memory Utilization

Lecture 3: Last Lecture

Instructors

Shikhar Verma • 90k+ Students Worldwide
Solutions Architect and IT Trainer

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5 stars: 469 votes

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