Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) is a toolkit for collecting, analyzing, and visualizing system performance metrics. In this tutorial, we will install PCP on Ubuntu Server.
Before you begin, you will need:
The first step is to add the PCP repository to Ubuntu. You can do this by running the following command:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:pcp/stable
This command will add the PCP repository to Ubuntu.
After adding the PCP repository, you need to update your Ubuntu system to ensure that you have the latest packages. You can update your system by running the following command:
sudo apt-get update
Once Ubuntu is updated, you can install PCP by running the following command:
sudo apt-get install pcp
This command will install PCP and all the necessary packages.
After installing PCP, you need to start the PCP services. You can do this by running the following command:
sudo systemctl start pmcd pmlogger
This command will start the pmcd and pmlogger services.
To verify that PCP is installed and running correctly, you can use the pminfo command. The pminfo command provides information about the PMDA metrics. You can check the CPU usage metric by running the following command:
sudo pminfo -f cpu.util
If PCP is installed and running correctly, you should receive an output showing CPU usage statistics.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install Performance Co-Pilot on Ubuntu Server. After following the steps in this tutorial, you should have a fully functional installation of PCP on your Ubuntu system.
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