High load alert

Developed In: bash — Contributed by: Shantanu Oak

Add the following one line command to crontab and run it every minute or every 5 minute. When the average server load is more than 40% send an alert to twitter account. Change the Username and Password.

Shantanu Oak
bash 
  1. myvar=$(cat /proc/loadavg | awk '{print int($1)}'); [ $myvar -gt 40 ] && curl --basic --user username:password --data status="Average load on server $myvar" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
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