dashboards

Learn to build simple, real-time dashboards for monitoring key system metrics using Bash scripts and command-line tools in Linux. This practical guide covers the use of tools like 'top', 'vmstat', 'iostat', 'netstat', 'grep', and 'awk' to create a customizable and low-resource monitoring dashboard directly in your shell, enhancing system performance optimization and troubleshooting.

This article on LinuxBash.sh demonstrates how to automate monitoring by setting up alerts and dashboards with Linux Bash. It details how IT administrators and DevOps engineers can use Bash scripts for proactive monitoring, including step-by-step instructions for gathering system metrics, scripting alerts, using `cron` for scheduling, and `gnuplot` for dashboards. This cost-effective method provides a customizable and lightweight alternative to costly monitoring tools.