Project1

This project includes Bash scripts to monitor and archive basic system metrics such as CPU usage, memory, disk space, uptime, and load average.

📜 Scripts

1. collect_metrics.sh

• Collects system metrics:
  • CPU usage
  • Memory usage
  • Disk usage
  • System uptime
  • Load average
• Saves the output to a timestamped text file in the reports/ directory: /home/ec2-user/Project1/reports/metrics_${TIMESTAMP}.txt ex: /home/ec2-user/Project1/reports/metrics_2025-10-20 16:15:01.txt

2. archive_metrics.sh

• Archives all metric report files for the current day into a compressed .tar.gz file in the archive/ directory: /home/ec2-user/Project1/archive/metrics_${TIMESTAMP}.tar.gz ex: /home/ec2-user/Project1/archive/metrics_2025-10-20_15-04-36.tar.gz

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⏰ Cron Jobs

Every 15 minutes – Collect metrics:

crontab -e */15 * * * * * bash /home/ec2-user/Project1/scripts/collect_metrics.sh

Every day at 11:59 PM – Archive daily reports:

59 23 * * * bash /home/ec2-user/Project1/scripts/archive_metrics.sh