Directory size monitoring

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Hello Experts,

I want to monitor the size of daram folder or directory as mentioned below in Linux server.

(eg : root/data/audit/kafkar/daram)

I am getting the size of all files inside the daram when I give (root/data/audit/kafkar/daram/*) but not the exact daram directory size.

Please suggest a solution to the same as I wanted alert when folder size increases/decreases.

I am using filesystem monitoring extension.

Thanks,

[DanielS · Accepted solution]

If you are already using the file system monitoring extension and it does not bring you the necessary data, you must generate an API-ingested metric. If the host that contains the folder already has OneAgent, you can ingest from that computer with the DDUs included per host to generate the metric. Please create a script and use the command:

du -s YOUR_DIRECTORY or du -s /YOUR_DIRECTORY depending on your linux distro

then you can parse the output and ingest it using the Dynatrace OA Metrics API.

After that you can set a Metric Event to raise the alert you need.