Solaris Performance Monitoring

Hardware

CPU

prstat

prstat or iostat below

Disk

iostat

The iostat utility iteratively reports terminal, disk, and tape I/O activity, as well as CPU utilization. The first line of output is for all time since boot; each subsequent line is for the prior interval only.

Interval’s should always be used it you need current data

iostat -xtcemn [interval] [count]
iostat -xcnCXdz [interval] [count]
iostat -xcCXdz [interval] [count]

Disk Statistics

Column	Description
r/s	Reads per second
w/s	Writes per second
kr/s	Kbytes read per second
kw/s	Kbytes written per second
wait	Average number of transactions that are waiting for service (queue length)
actv	Average number of transactions that are actively being serviced
svc_t	Average service time, in milliseconds
%w	Percentage of time that the queue is not empty
%b	Percentage of time that the disk is busy

CPU Statistics

Column	Description
us	In user mode
sy	In system mode
wt	Waiting for I/O
id	Idle

zpools

zpool iostat [interval] os zpool iostat -v [interval]

Network

dladm

dladm show-link -s -i 10 aggr77001