Read and show single metrics from atop raw logs. This is for example nice to show average CPU load in a nice text mode diagram using unicode braille characters (what is the default) on login.

The script supports python3.5+. It allows to dump the data as csv, json or ascii table and to plot simple graphs via gnuplot subprocess or diagram.

Warning

• No batteries included ... this is just the code i use. It's not actively maintained. It's just here in case it's useful for somebody.
• Require same machine run this code in same machine when using atop write. sometimes atop can't decode the binary files it seems different machine have different binary file, i was logging atop from raspberry pi(raspi-os) and process it with virtualbox(ubuntu 17)

Requirements

• This script extracts its data from a raw logfile that has been recorded by atop. If you install atop on a Ubuntu or RedHat / CentOS like linux distribution (apt-get install atop / yum install atop), it comes with a cronjob which writes the required data to /var/log/atop/atop_YYYYMMDD (where YYYYMMDD reflects the date) every few minutes. Otherwise you may need to do this yourself using atop -w.

Installation

1. Checkout the repository and install via pip3 install ./aplot (where ./aplot is a path to checkout).
2. (optional) Add your preferred call to your ~/.profile to show it on login.

Usage

Usage:

  python3 -m aplot metrics [-c <cmd>] [-p <path>] [-e <time>] [-r <hours>]
  python3 -m aplot (csv|json|table) [-c <cmd>] [-p <path>] [-e <time>] [-r <hours>] [<metric>...]
  python3 -m aplot (diagram|gnuplot) [-c <cmd>] [-p <path>] [-e <time>] [-r <hours>] [-x <lines>] [-y <lines>] [<metric>...]

Options:

    diagram                       Print the results as a braille character diagram (default).
    gnuplot                       Print the results using a gnuplot subprocess.
    table                         Print the results as ascii table.
    csv                           Print the results as csv table.
    json                          Print the results as json datagram.

    metrics                       Print a list of all possible metric_path's.

    -e <time>, --end=<time>       The latest value to plot in ISO8601 format. Defaults to now. [default: now]
    -r <hours>, --range=<hours>   Number of hours, backwards from --stop, top plot. [default: 6]
    -x <lines>, --width=<lines>   Width of plotted graphs in text lines. [default: 59]
    -y <lines>, --height=<lines>  Height of plotted graphs in text lines. [default: 9]
    -p <path>, --path=<path>      Path to atop raw logs with date placeholders. [default: /var/log/atop/atop_%Y%m%d]
    -c <cmd>, --cmd <cmd>         Command to call with the raw files. [default: atop -f -r {path}]


    <metric>...                   The metric to display. Defaults to display CPL.avg5    

Metrics

Which metrics are availbale depends on your atop installation, but in general you can assume something like:

• CPL.avg1, CPL.avg15, CPL.avg5, CPL.csw, CPL.intr, CPU.idle, CPU.irq, CPU.sys, CPU.user, CPU.wait
• DSK.sd_.avio, DSK.sd_.busy, DSK.sd_.read, DSK.sd_.write
• MEM.buff, MEM.cache, MEM.free, MEM.slab, MEM.tot
• NET.eth_.pcki, NET.eth_.pcko, NET.eth_.si, NET.eth_.so
• NET.network.deliv, NET.network.ipfrw, NET.network.ipi, NET.network.ipo
• NET.transport.tcpi, NET.transport.tcpo, NET.transport.udpi, NET.transport.udpo
• PAG.scan, PAG.stall, PAG.swin, PAG.swout, PRC.exit, PRC.proc, PRC.sys, PRC.user, PRC.zombie
• SWP.free, SWP.tot, SWP.vmcom, SWP.vmlim

Examples

$ ./aplot.py diagram

$ ./aplot.py json CPL.avg5 SWP.free MEM.free --range 1 | json_pp

{
   "2016-08-06T12:09:57" : {
      "CPL.avg5" : 0.14,
      "MEM.free" : 878077542,
      "SWP.free" : 15998753177
   },
   "2016-08-06T12:19:57" : {
      "CPL.avg5" : 0.11,
      "MEM.free" : 875560960,
      "SWP.free" : 15998753177
   },
   "2016-08-06T12:29:57" : {
      "CPL.avg5" : 0.1,
      "MEM.free" : 877867827,
      "SWP.free" : 15998753177
   },
   "2016-08-06T12:39:57" : {
      "CPL.avg5" : 0.12,
      "MEM.free" : 878811545,
      "SWP.free" : 15998753177
   },
   "2016-08-06T12:49:57" : {
      "CPL.avg5" : 0.05,
      "MEM.free" : 879126118,
      "SWP.free" : 15998753177
   }
}

Related

• The tool atopsar also allows to get reports and statistics from atop raw logfiles.