How to Monitor Linux Memory Usage Using Bash Script
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Preface There are many open source monitoring tools available in the market that can be used to monitor the performance of Linux systems. It can send email alerts when the system reaches specified threshold limits. It can monitor everything from CPU utilization, memory utilization, swap utilization, disk space utilization, and more. If you have only a few systems and want to monitor them, writing a small shell script can make your task very simple. In this tutorial, we added two shell scripts to monitor memory utilization on a Linux system. When the system reaches a given threshold, it will send an email to a specific email address. Method-1: Monitor Memory Utilization and Send Email Using Linux Bash Script If you only want to get the current memory utilization percentage via email when the system reaches a given threshold, use the following script. This is a very simple and straightforward one-line script. In most cases, I prefer this approach. When your system reaches 80% memory utilization, it will trigger an email.
*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/free | awk '/Mem/{printf("RAM Usage: %.2f%\n"), $3/$2*100}' | awk '{print $3}' | awk '{ if($1 > 80) print $0;}' | mail -s "High Memory Alert" [email protected]NOTE: You need to change your email address instead of using our email address. Additionally, you can change the memory utilization threshold as per your requirement. Output: You will receive an email alert similar to the one below.
We have added many useful shell scripts in the past. If you would like to view these, please navigate to the links below. * How to automate daily activities using shell scripts? Method-2 : Monitor Memory Utilization and Send Email Using Linux Bash Script If you want to get more information about memory utilization in mail alerts. Use the following script which includes top memory utilization and process details based on top and ps commands. This will immediately give you an idea of how your system is performing. When your system reaches "80%" of memory utilization, it will trigger an email. NOTE: You need to change your email address instead of using our email address. Additionally, you can change the memory utilization threshold as per your requirement.
# vi /opt/scripts/memory-alert.sh
#!/bin/sh
ramusage=$(free | awk '/Mem/{printf("RAM Usage: %.2f\n"), $3/$2*100}' | awk '{print $3}')
if [ "$ramusage" > 20 ]; then
SUBJECT="ATTENTION: Memory Utilization is High on $(hostname) at $(date)"
MESSAGE="/tmp/Mail.out"
TO="[email protected]"
echo "Memory Current Usage is: $ramusage%" >> $MESSAGE
echo "" >> $MESSAGE
echo "------------------------------------------------------------------" >> $MESSAGE
echo "Top Memory Consuming Process Using top command" >> $MESSAGE
echo "------------------------------------------------------------------" >> $MESSAGE
echo "$(top -b -o +%MEM | head -n 20)" >> $MESSAGE
echo "" >> $MESSAGE
echo "------------------------------------------------------------------" >> $MESSAGE
echo "Top Memory Consuming Process Using ps command" >> $MESSAGE
echo "------------------------------------------------------------------" >> $MESSAGE
echo "$(ps -eo pid,ppid,%mem,%Memory,cmd --sort=-%mem | head)" >> $MESSAGE
mail -s "$SUBJECT" "$TO" < $MESSAGE
rm /tmp/Mail.out
fiFinally add a cron job to automate this operation. It will run every 5 minutes. # crontab -e */5 * * * * /bin/bash /opt/scripts/memory-alert.sh NOTE: Because the script is scheduled to run every 5 minutes, you will receive an email reminder in a maximum of 5 minutes (but not 5 minutes, depending on the time). For example, if your system reaches a given limit of 8.25, then you will receive an email alert within 5 minutes. Hope that's clear now. Output: You will receive an email alert similar to the one below. Memory Current Usage is: 80.71% +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Top Memory Consuming Process Using top command +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ top - 12:00:58 up 5 days, 9:03, 1 user, load average: 1.82, 2.60, 2.83 Tasks: 314 total, 1 running, 313 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu0 : 8.3 us, 12.5 sy, 0.0 ni, 75.0 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 4.2 si, 0.0 st %Cpu1 : 13.6 us, 4.5 sy, 0.0 ni, 81.8 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st %Cpu2 : 21.7 us, 21.7 sy, 0.0 ni, 56.5 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st %Cpu3 : 13.6 us, 9.1 sy, 0.0 ni, 77.3 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st %Cpu4 : 17.4 us, 8.7 sy, 0.0 ni, 73.9 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st %Cpu5 : 20.8 us, 4.2 sy, 0.0 ni, 70.8 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 4.2 si, 0.0 st %Cpu6 : 9.1 us, 0.0 sy, 0.0 ni, 90.9 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st %Cpu7 : 17.4 us, 4.3 sy, 0.0 ni, 78.3 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st KiB Mem : 16248588 total, 5015964 free, 6453404 used, 4779220 buff/cache KiB Swap: 17873388 total, 16928620 free, 944768 used. 6423008 avail Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 17163 daygeek 20 2033204 487736 282888 S 10.0 3.0 8:26.07 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 15 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 9408 -prefMapSize 184979 -parentBuildID 20190521202118 -greomni /u+ 1121 daygeek 20 4191388 419180 100552 S 5.0 2.6 126:02.84 /usr/bin/gnome-shell 1902 daygeek 20 1701644 327216 82536 S 20.0 2.0 153:27.92 /opt/google/chrome/chrome 2969 daygeek 20 1051116 324656 92388 S 15.0 2.0 149:38.09 /opt/google/chrome/chrome --type=renderer --field-trial-handle=10346122902703263820,11905758137655502112,131072 --service-pipe-token=1339861+ 1068 daygeek 20 1104856 309552 278072 S 5.0 1.9 143:47.42 /usr/lib/Xorg vt2 -displayfd 3 -auth /run/user/1000/gdm/Xauthority -nolisten tcp -background none -noreset -keeptty -verbose 3 27246 daygeek 20 907344 265600 108276 S 30.0 1.6 10:42.80 /opt/google/chrome/chrome --type=renderer --field-trial-handle=10346122902703263820,11905758137655502112,131072 --service-pipe-token=8587368+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Top Memory Consuming Process Using ps command +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ PID PPID %MEM %CPU CMD 8223 1 6.4 6.8 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox --new-window 13948 1121 6.3 1.2 /usr/bin/../lib/notepadqq/notepadqq-bin 8671 8223 4.4 7.5 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 5 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 6999 -prefMapSize 184979 -parentBuildID 20190521202118 -greomni /usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib/firefox/browser/omni.ja -appdir /usr/lib/firefox/browser 8223 true tab 17163 8223 3.0 0.6 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 15 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 9408 -prefMapSize 184979 -parentBuildID 20190521202118 -greomni /usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib/firefox/browser/omni.ja -appdir /usr/lib/firefox/browser 8223 true tab 1121 1078 2.5 1.6 /usr/bin/gnome-shell 17937 8223 2.5 0.8 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 16 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 9410 -prefMapSize 184979 -parentBuildID 20190521202118 -greomni /usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib/firefox/browser/omni.ja -appdir /usr/lib/firefox/browser 8223 true tab 8499 8223 2.2 0.6 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 4 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 6635 -prefMapSize 184979 -parentBuildID 20190521202118 -greomni /usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib/firefox/browser/omni.ja -appdir /usr/lib/firefox/browser 8223 true tab 8306 8223 2.2 0.8 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 1 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 1 -prefMapSize 184979 -parentBuildID 20190521202118 -greomni /usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib/firefox/browser/omni.ja -appdir /usr/lib/firefox/browser 8223 true tab 9198 8223 2.1 0.6 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 7 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 8604 -prefMapSize 184979 -parentBuildID 20190521202118 -greomni /usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib/firefox/browser/omni.ja -appdir /usr/lib/firefox/browser 8223 true tab via: https://www.2daygeek.com/linux-bash-script-to-monitor-memory-utilization-usage-and-send-email/ Author: Magesh Maruthamuthu Topic: lujun9972 Translator: wxy Proofreader: wxy Summarize The above is the full content of this article. 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