4.5 Performance Monitoring Workshop

Content

• Overview and Objectives
  • Learning Objectives
• System Resource Monitoring: CPU, Memory, Disk, and Network
• Performance Analysis Tools: sar, iostat, and vmstat
• Load Average Interpretation and Significance
• Identifying and Diagnosing Performance Bottlenecks
• Custom Monitoring Concepts and Alerting Strategies
• Real-world context
• Common Pitfalls
• Recommended reading
• Lab Exercises
  • Lab Overview
  • Lab Exercise 1: Resource Monitoring Setup
  • Lab Exercise 2: Real-time Performance Analysis
  • Lab Exercise 3: Historical Data Analysis with sar
  • Lab Exercise 4: Performance Bottleneck Simulation and Diagnosis
  • Lab Exercise 5: Monitoring Loop Preview
  • Lab Cleanup
  • Troubleshooting Guide
• Assessment
  • Multiple Choice Questions
  • Short Answer Questions

This chapter is available exclusively to members of The Server Room, my DevOps community of practice. You have multiple options for taking this course, for example self-guided or instructor-led. Check out the course details to learn more!

Updated 2026-03-10