[RFE] include pidstat data in sa data files

[pschiffe]

It would be useful to have historical pidstat data, to investigate which process misbehaved last night.

[sysstat]

Yes I can understand that having historical pidstat data can help troubleshoot problems.
But hey, I consider the idea to include those data in sa data files to be frightening...! Please tell me, you were just kidding?

[pschiffe]

Yeah, I thought you wouldn't like it from the techn. point of view. :-) I put it here because I think it's a really good feature to have. Maybe if it would be optional, off by default.. I don't know.. I don't want to scare you, so feel free to close this if you don't like it. (but I'm already thinking about optimizations like store the process name with params only once in data file, and then, it's again only just numbers.. ^^)

[akhiljalagam]

presently, I am using telegraf -> influxdb -> grafana for historical metrics data. but still pidstat is simple compared to grafana system. it's good to have sysstat/pidstat historical metrics.

[MrPippin66]

Including "pidstat" data in "sar" data is a data management problem. But I have to cast my vote to have the option of gathering this data for 'sar' reporting as well. It would really help to have the option after the fact to see what processes were consuming CPU resources during a given interval.