How to monitor disk performance on RHEL or CentOS 7 ?

How to monitor disk performance on RHEL or CentOS 7 ?


iotop : Watches I/O usage information output by the Linux kernel (requires 2.6.20 or later) and displays a table of current I/O usage by processes or threads on the system. At least the CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT, CONFIG_TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING, CONFIG_TASKSTATS and CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS options need to be enabled in your Linux kernel build configuration. iotop displays columns for the I/O bandwidth read and written by each process/thread during the sampling period. It also displays the percentage of time the thread/process spent while swapping in and while waiting on I/O. For each process, its I/O priority (class/level) is shown.

[root@localhost ~]# iotop

Total DISK READ :       0.00 B/s | Total DISK WRITE :       0.00 B/s
Actual DISK READ:       0.00 B/s | Actual DISK WRITE:       0.00 B/s
   TID  PRIO  USER     DISK READ  DISK WRITE  SWAPIN     IO>    COMMAND
 14856 be/4 root        0.00 B/s    0.00 B/s  0.00 %  0.08 % [kworker/3:0]
     1 be/4 root        0.00 B/s    0.00 B/s  0.00 %  0.00 % systemd --switched-root --system --deserialize 22
     2 be/4 root        0.00 B/s    0.00 B/s  0.00 %  0.00 % [kthreadd]
     3 be/4 root        0.00 B/s    0.00 B/s  0.00 %  0.00 % [ksoftirqd/0]
     5 be/0 root        0.00 B/s    0.00 B/s  0.00 %  0.00 % [kworker/0:0H]
     6 be/4 root        0.00 B/s    0.00 B/s  0.00 %  0.00 % [kworker/u256:0]
     7 rt/4 root        0.00 B/s    0.00 B/s  0.00 %  0.00 % [migration/0]
     8 be/4 root        0.00 B/s    0.00 B/s  0.00 %  0.00 % [rcu_bh]
     9 be/4 root        0.00 B/s    0.00 B/s  0.00 %  0.00 % [rcu_sched]
    10 be/0 root        0.00 B/s    0.00 B/s  0.00 %  0.00 % [lru-add-drain]
    11 rt/4 root        0.00 B/s    0.00 B/s  0.00 %  0.00 % [watchdog/0]
    12 rt/4 root        0.00 B/s    0.00 B/s  0.00 %  0.00 % [watchdog/1]
    13 rt/4 root        0.00 B/s    0.00 B/s  0.00 %  0.00 % [migration/1]
    14 be/4 root        0.00 B/s    0.00 B/s  0.00 %  0.00 % [ksoftirqd/1]
 10925 be/4 hpe         0.00 B/s    0.00 B/s  0.00 %  0.00 % gsd-xsettings [dconf worker]
    16 be/0 root        0.00 B/s    0.00 B/s  0.00 %  0.00 % [kworker/1:0H]
    17 rt/4 root        0.00 B/s    0.00 B/s  0.00 %  0.00 % [watchdog/2]
    18 rt/4 root        0.00 B/s    0.00 B/s  0.00 %  0.00 % [migration/2]
    19 be/4 root        0.00 B/s    0.00 B/s  0.00 %  0.00 % [ksoftirqd/2]


iostat : It report CPU statistics and IO statistics for devices and partitions. This command is used for monitoring system input/output device loading by observing the time devices are active in relation to their average transfer rates. The iostat command generates reports that can be used to change system configuration to better balance the input/output load between physical disks.

[root@localhost ~]# iostat
Linux 3.10.0-957.el7.x86_64 (localhost.localdomain)     Friday 29 March 2019    _x86_64_        (4 CPU)

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
           0.84    0.91    1.70    0.94    0.00   95.61

Device:            tps    kB_read/s    kB_wrtn/s    kB_read    kB_wrtn
sda              16.88       426.35       198.58    1477954     688381
scd0              0.01         0.30         0.00       1050          0
dm-0             16.66       415.36       197.98    1439850     686291
dm-1              0.03         0.71         0.00       2460          0


To check iostats on /dev/sda:

[root@localhost ~]# iostat -p sda
Linux 3.10.0-957.el7.x86_64 (localhost.localdomain)     Friday 29 March 2019    _x86_64_        (4 CPU)

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
           0.79    0.85    2.01    1.01    0.00   95.34

Device:            tps    kB_read/s    kB_wrtn/s    kB_read    kB_wrtn
sda              19.93       404.65       185.43    1584346     726011
sda1              0.52         8.15         0.53      31892       2090
sda2             19.41       396.08       184.89    1550782     723921


To check detailed stats:

[root@localhost ~]# iostat -x
Linux 3.10.0-957.el7.x86_64 (localhost.localdomain)     Friday 29 March 2019    _x86_64_        (4 CPU)

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
           0.72    0.57    1.58    0.74    0.00   96.39

Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await r_await w_await  svctm  %util
sda               0.03     0.37   12.37    1.45   274.77   137.89    59.72     0.18   13.40    6.47   72.30   3.92   5.41
scd0              0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.18     0.00    72.41     0.00    1.72    1.72    0.00   1.31   0.00
dm-0              0.00     0.00   12.02    1.82   268.25   137.54    58.63     0.24   17.31    6.65   87.75   3.90   5.39
dm-1              0.00     0.00    0.02    0.00     0.42     0.00    54.67     0.00    0.20    0.20    0.00   0.11   0.00


atop : atop is a Advanced System & Process Monitoring tool, which displays live status of the critical hardware resources (from a performance point of view) on system level, i.e. cpu, memory, disk and network in a arranged manner.

NOTE: To install this tool you will have to install EPEL repository and download it separately as it doesn't comes with RHEL or CentOS OS ISO's.

To install EPEL on CentOS and atop:

[root@localhost ~]# yum --enablerepo=extras install epel-release

[root@localhost ~]# yum install atop

To run atop :

[root@localhost ~]# atop




ioping : This tool generates various I/O patterns and lets you monitor I/O speed and latency in real time.

NOTE: To install this tool you will have to install EPEL repository and download it separately as it doesn't comes with RHEL or CentOS OS ISO's.

To install EPEL on CentOS and ioping:

[root@localhost ~]# yum --enablerepo=extras install epel-release

[root@localhost ~]# yum install ioping

To run ioping :

[root@localhost ~]# ioping -c 10 .
4 KiB <<< . (xfs /dev/dm-0): request=1 time=236.0 us (warmup)
4 KiB <<< . (xfs /dev/dm-0): request=2 time=496.4 us
4 KiB <<< . (xfs /dev/dm-0): request=3 time=592.1 us
4 KiB <<< . (xfs /dev/dm-0): request=4 time=630.0 us
4 KiB <<< . (xfs /dev/dm-0): request=5 time=384.8 us
4 KiB <<< . (xfs /dev/dm-0): request=6 time=696.7 us
4 KiB <<< . (xfs /dev/dm-0): request=7 time=1.22 ms (slow)
4 KiB <<< . (xfs /dev/dm-0): request=8 time=580.1 us
4 KiB <<< . (xfs /dev/dm-0): request=9 time=778.8 us
4 KiB <<< . (xfs /dev/dm-0): request=10 time=726.6 us

--- . (xfs /dev/dm-0) ioping statistics ---
9 requests completed in 6.11 ms, 36 KiB read, 1.47 k iops, 5.76 MiB/s
generated 10 requests in 9.01 s, 40 KiB, 1 iops, 4.44 KiB/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 384.8 us / 678.6 us / 1.22 ms / 222.8 us


[root@localhost ~]# ioping -c 10 -i 5 -s 16k .
16 KiB <<< . (xfs /dev/dm-0): request=1 time=374.2 us (warmup)
16 KiB <<< . (xfs /dev/dm-0): request=2 time=732.5 us
16 KiB <<< . (xfs /dev/dm-0): request=3 time=932.0 us
16 KiB <<< . (xfs /dev/dm-0): request=4 time=574.3 us
16 KiB <<< . (xfs /dev/dm-0): request=5 time=667.4 us
16 KiB <<< . (xfs /dev/dm-0): request=6 time=588.0 us
16 KiB <<< . (xfs /dev/dm-0): request=7 time=903.8 us
16 KiB <<< . (xfs /dev/dm-0): request=8 time=666.1 us
16 KiB <<< . (xfs /dev/dm-0): request=9 time=886.9 us
16 KiB <<< . (xfs /dev/dm-0): request=10 time=594.5 us

--- . (xfs /dev/dm-0) ioping statistics ---
9 requests completed in 6.55 ms, 144 KiB read, 1.37 k iops, 21.5 MiB/s
generated 10 requests in 45.0 s, 160 KiB, 0 iops, 3.55 KiB/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 574.3 us / 727.3 us / 932.0 us / 135.9 us

NOTE: 

-c Stop after count requests
-i Set time between requests to interval (Default 1s)
-s Request size (Default 4k)

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