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5 Best Tools to Monitor and Debug Disk I/O Performance in Linux

A key performance metric to monitor on a Linux server is disk I/O (input/output) activity, which can significantly impact several aspects of a Linux server, particularly the speed of saving to or retrieving from disk, of files or data (especially on database servers). This has a ripple effect on the performance of applications and services.

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