If you're looking for ganglia gmetric scripts for Disk I/O, take a look at http://ganglia.info/gmetric/ or http://ben.hartshorne.net/ganglia/. At the very bottom of Ben's page you'll find disk_metric.sh.
-Matt On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Andy Sautins <[email protected]>wrote: > > I have a question that I got an interesting and helpful answer for on > the IRC channel today, but thought I'd open it up to a larger group as well. > > My problem is hopefully a very common problem. I'm using Ganglia for > trend graphing. We are using Ganglia 3.0.7 for convenience since RPMS are > available for CentOS 5.4 through EPEL. Everything generally works great, > but Ganglia doesn't appear to gather Disk I/O stats ( writes/sec, reads/sec, > etc ) as a metric. Some quick looking on the web seemed to confirm that > ganglia doesn't capture disk I/O stats by default, but talk about how it's > generally pretty easy to capture using gmetric. > > I guess my question would be is there a common way of doing this? What > do you use? Do you find Disk I/O to be a useful/necessary metric? > > Any thoughts would be much appreciated. > >
