26, Aug 2023

MONITOR CPU USAGE WITH SHELL LANGUAGE

Palzin Track Shell Use Cases

Monitor your CPU usage in your Shell application

When developing a Shell application, it is essential to address performance considerations, as they play a crucial role in shaping the user experience. Performance issues are a common concern and can significantly impact the application's effectiveness. One of the most prevalent performance challenges faced by Shell applications is the occurrence of CPU-bound workloads. This situation arises when the application spends a significant amount of time waiting for the CPU to complete tasks.

In such instances, it becomes imperative to monitor the CPU usage of your Shell application and establish a tracking system to detect when the usage surpasses predefined thresholds. This approach ensures continuous awareness of your application's performance. In cases of performance degradation, such as when CPU usage exceeds specified thresholds, immediate action can be taken to rectify the issue before it escalates.

Thankfully, Palzin Track offers an effective solution to address these concerns. Palzin Track is a potent real-time event tracking tool that seamlessly integrates with Shell. With Palzin Track, you have the flexibility to set up event tracking for various aspects of your Shell application, including real-time monitoring of CPU usage. Furthermore, you can configure alert rules to promptly notify you and your team when CPU usage crosses designated thresholds. This proactive monitoring approach ensures that you remain well-informed about your application's performance and enables you to take swift action as required.

Connect Palzin Track to Shell


Setting up Palzin Track

  1. Sign up for a free Palzin Track account.
  2. Create your first project from the dashboard.
  3. Head to settings and copy your API token.

Shell code snippets

Use the following code snippet to track your CPU Usage with Palzin Track. Please don't forget to replace the YOUR_API_TOKEN with your API token and update the project and channel names.

Using Shell with Httpie


printf '{"project":"my-project","channel":"status","event":"High CPU Usage","description":"CPI usage has been over 90%% for the last 5 minutes","icon":"🚨","notify":true}'| http --follow --timeout 3600 POST 'https://api.palzin.live/v1/log' \  


 Content-Type:'application/json' \  


 Authorization:'Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN'

Using Shell with wget


wget --no-check-certificate --quiet \  


 --method POST \  


 --timeout=0 \  


 --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \  


 --header 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN' \  


 --body-data '{"project":"my-project","channel":"status","event":"High CPU Usage","description":"CPI usage has been over 90% for the last 5 minutes","icon":"🚨","notify":true}' \  


 'https://api.palzin.live/v1/log'

Shell integration details

We believe that event tracking should be simple and accessible to every developer and team. Therefore, we have worked hard to create the next generation of event tracking tools. As a result, Palzin Track is flexible and easy to use, making it a great companion for your Shell applications.

In addition to real-time event tracking, Palzin Track provides powerful features such as cross-platform push notifications, event filtering, user and product journeys, charts, insights, and more.

Palzin Track provides a generous free plan to get you started with event tracking. You can also check out our pricing page to see our paid plans. So please give us a try and let us know what you think!

Other use-cases for Palzin Track

  1. Monitor your CI/CD build status for your Shell application
  2. Monitor when database goes down in your Shell application
  3. Monitor high disk usage in your Shell application
  4. Monitor when a user changes their email address in your Shell application
  5. Monitor failed logins in your Shell application
  6. Monitor failed payments for your Shell application
  7. Monitor memory usage in your Shell application
  8. Monitor MySQL downtime in your Shell application
  9. Monitor when a new feature is used in your Shell application
  10. Monitor your Postgres downtime in your Shell application
  11. Monitor Redis downtime in your Shell application
  12. Monitor suspicious activity in your Shell application
  13. Monitor when a user exceeds the usage limit for your Shell service
  14. Monitor when a user is being rate limited in your Shell application
  15. Get a notification when your Shell code is done executing
  16. Send push notifications to your phone or desktop using Shell
  17. Track canceled subscriptions in your Shell application
  18. Track your Shell cron jobs
  19. Track when a file is uploaded to your Shell application
  20. Track when a form is submitted to your Shell application
  21. Track payment events via Shell
  22. Track user sign in events in Shell
  23. Monitor user signup events via Shell
  24. Track waitlist signup events via Shell

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