Monitoring Linux Infrastructure with Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) and Web UI
Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) is an enterprise-grade system performance analysis and telemetry framework. Developed to monitor large distributed environments, PCP gathers live and historical metrics covering kernel internals, hardware subsystems, file systems, disk I/O, memory pressure, and networking. 1. Installation and Daemon Setup On Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, or Fedora, install the core PCP packages: sudo yum install -y pcp pcp-webjs Performance Metrics Collector Daemon (pmcd) pmcd acts as the primary coordinator, querying Performance Metric Domain Agents (PMDAs) for subsystem statistics: ...