{"id":90514,"date":"2019-03-25T09:14:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T09:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/03\/25\/how-to-monitor-disk-io-in-linux\/"},"modified":"2019-03-25T09:14:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T09:14:23","slug":"how-to-monitor-disk-io-in-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/03\/25\/how-to-monitor-disk-io-in-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Monitor Disk IO in Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lcom-stacked__main\">\n<div class=\"panel-pane pane-entity-field pane-node-body\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>iostat&nbsp;is used to get the input\/output statistics for storage devices and partitions. iostat is a part of the sysstat package. With iostat, you can monitor the read\/write speeds of your storage devices (such as hard disk drives, SSDs) and partitions (disk partitions). In this article, I am going to show you how to monitor disk input\/output using iostat in Linux. So, let\u2019s get started.<\/p>\n<h3>Installing iostat on Ubuntu\/Debian:<\/h3>\n<p>The iostat command is not available on Ubuntu\/Debian by default. But, you can easily install the&nbsp;sysstat&nbsp;package from the official package repository of Ubuntu\/Debian using the APT package manager. iostat is a part of the sysstat package as I\u2019ve mentioned before.<\/p>\n<p>First, update the APT package repository cache with the following command:<\/p>\n<div class=\"codecolorer-container bash default\">\n<p>$&nbsp;sudo&nbsp;apt update<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37778\" height=\"263\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/how-to-monitor-disk-io-in-linux.png\" width=\"939\"><\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/linuxhint.com\/monitor_disk_io_linux\/\">LinuxHint<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linux.com\/popup\/nojs\" class=\"ctools-use-modal ctools-modal-subscription-modal-style element-invisible\" title>Click Here!<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iostat&nbsp;is used to get the input\/output statistics for storage devices and partitions. iostat is a part of the sysstat package. With iostat, you can monitor the read\/write speeds of your storage devices (such as hard disk drives, SSDs) and partitions (disk partitions). In this article, I am going to show you how to monitor disk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux-freebsd-unix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}