Overview

A set of CLI utilities designed to record the right performance metrics from different systems and applications, save and transport original raw data for visualization and analysis. Supports different industries: ICT enterprise, weather and environment.

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• Features
• Why use data recorders?
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Requirements

• Processor: Intel/AMD x64, ARMv8
• Memory: 32 MB RAM
• Disk space: 64MB, Raw data: 500-750KB per day / data source
• OS: FreeBSD, RHEL, Ubuntu, Debian, Windows, MacOS*
• Protocols: SERIAL COMMUNICATION, SNMP, MODBUS(RTU,TCP,ASCII), MQTT, HTTP, BLE, BACnet
• SBC: Raspberry PI 3B+, 4B

Features

• Resource utilization and saturation
• Throughput performance metrics
• Response time performance metrics
• Errors
• Uptime
• Power consumption
• Can be deployed on a system, or executed remotely
• Support for raw data
• Universal CSV output data format
• Built-in data classification and grouping
• Industrial IoT readiness
• Conservative in CPU and memory usage on different architectures
• Easy to configure and add new metrics to capture new data
• Runs without human intervention, easy to detect data transmission problems
• Full control with no complicated licenses for further development
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Supported Systems

• FreeBSD 12,13
• CentOS 7.9 x86_64
• RHEL 8 x86_64
• Debian 9,10,11 amd64
• CloudLinux 7 x86_64
• Ubuntu Server Edition 18 amd64
• SLES 15 x86_64
• OpenSuse Leap 15 x86_64
• Raspbian GNU/Linux 8+ armv8
• MacOS (2023)
• Windows 7
• Windows 8
• Windows 10
• Windows 11 (TBD)
• Windows 2008 R2 Server x64
• Windows 2012 R2 Server x64
• Windows 2016 R2 Server x64

Industries

Information and Communications Technology

Computer system data recorders

These are the main, basic data recorders which can run on physical or virtual computer system host. Support full and OS virtualization.

• sysrec - Overall system performance data recorder
• cpurec - Per CPU statistics data recorder
• nicrec - Per NIC statistics data recorder
• diskrec - Per disk statistics data recorder
• hsrec - Hardware and software system inventory data recorder
• faultrec - Fault Management data recorder (2024)

Service, application data recorders

• dockrec - Docker Performance data recorder (2024)
• jvmrec - Java VM statistics data recorder
• snmprec - SNMP equipment data recorder
• netrec - TCP, UDP data recorder
• httprec - HTTP server statistics: NGINX, Apache, Tomcat, PHP-FPM
• dbrec - Database data recorder: MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL (2024)
• certrec - X.509 security certificate statistics data recorder
• direc - Filesystem directory statistics data recorder
• ntprec - NTP server statistics data recorder
• smtprec - SMTP server data recorder (2024)
• imaprec - IMAP/POP server data recorder (2024)
• svcrec - Service performance,availability: IMAP,SMTP,POP3,LDAP,DNS,TCP,Any
• procrec - Process statistics data recorder
• webrec - Web application performance,availability data recorder
• wprec - Wordpress security, performance and availability data recorder (2024)

Industrial IoT, Weather and Environment

• axisrec - AXIS security and video surveillance data recorder
• bacrec - Building management BACnet data recorder (2025)
• blrec - Bluetooth Low Energy data recorder (2025)
• rs485rec - Industrial RS-232, RS-485, MODBUS data recorder
• sockrec - Network IO Socket data recorder
• wsrec - General weather station recorder RS-232/USB