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atop - useful tool for investigation and incident RCA on Linux

Atop is an ASCII full-screen performance monitor for Linux that is capable of reporting the activity of all processes (even if processes have finished during the interval), daily logging of system and process activity for long-term analysis, highlighting overloaded system resources by using colors, etc. At regular intervals, it shows system-level activity related to the CPU, memory, swap, disks (including LVM) and network layers, and for every process (and thread) it shows e.g. the CPU utilization, memory growth, disk utilization, priority, username, state, and exit code. In combination with the optional kernel module netatop , it even shows network activity per process/thread. The command atop has some major advantages compared to other performance monitoring tools: Resource consumption by all processes It shows the resource consumption by all processes that were active during the interval, so also the resource consumption by those process...

To prevent data loss, proactively monitor your hard disk

Nice Introduction from the Acronis website: “There are three unavoidable certainties in life: Death, Taxes and Hard Disk Drive Failures.  Acronis does not have a solution for the first; however, we can make sure that your financial records, photos, videos and other items of sentimental or monetary value are protected so that you can cherish the memories and pay your taxes on time! Acronis Drive Monitor is a free tool that helps monitor your hard drive, and prevent data loss.” How? Understanding the Technology: S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) is a disk monitoring technology which can predict many disk failures. This technology is implemented on the most modern hard drives. Many hard disk monitoring software e.g Acronis Drive Monitor query this information to analyze and predict hard drive health, status, failure. Supported Hard Drives according to the Acronis website: “ With the first version of Acronis Drive Monitor, the le...