I find sar to be very reliable and convenient.  It's not my sole means
of gathering data, though; I use Cacti also.

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 6:03 AM, Mike Gerdts <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Peter Tribble <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> in order to get the network stats. I get the feeling that there's an
>> opportunity to
>> take a broader view here and rip out some of the useless numbers that sar
>> collects and add some that would be useful.)
>
> sar has disappointed me so many times that I rarely use it.  In
> particular, the times that I most needed to use the data I found that
> the file was corrupt and sar with either dump core or spit errors
> trying to read it.  Are people actually using sar as their primary
> means of collecting performance data with good success these days?
>
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