kSar – an easy sar grapher utility

kSar is an easy to use application for creating graphical reports from your sar daily report. kSar is written in java and it supports generating the report in PDF, HTML, CSV, JPG and PNG formats.

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Sar is a system activity reporting tool which comes with the sysstat rpm package. Sar will collect your system activities every 10 minutes and store in /var/log/sa/saXX where XX is the zero-padded two digit day of month. Once you have sar is ready in your linux system, kSar can read the daily report file generated by sar from /var/log/sa/sarXX and generate the graphical report.

kSar can work in GUI as well as in CLI modes. GUI mode gives you the visualization of sar generated report with customizable easy to read graphs.

The CLI mode gives you the flexibility of reading sar reports from the specified input file and create graphical output in various formats like PDF, HTML or images. The command line interface will be useful if you want to generate a report on daily basis and send it via email using cron job.

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