# Install sysstat with Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, Nix, pacman, zypper

Performance monitoring tools for Linux. Version 12.7.9 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install isag.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:sysstat
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install sysstat
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add sysstat
```

  Evidence: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: sysstat from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install sysstat
```

  Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: sysstat from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install sysstat
```

  Evidence: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: sysstat from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#sysstat
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/sy/sysstat/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S sysstat
```

  Evidence: Arch Linux sync databases: sysstat from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install sysstat
```

  Evidence: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: sysstat from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:sysstat
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 12.7.9
- **Source summary:** Performance monitoring tools for Linux
- **Homepage:** <https://sysstat.github.io/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/sysstat/sysstat>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- cifsiostat (alias)
- iostat (alias)
- mpstat (alias)
- pidstat (alias)
- sadf (alias)
- sar (alias)
- tapestat (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 12.7.9
## Project history and usage

sysstat is a Linux performance-monitoring package centered on familiar Unix-style commands such as sar, iostat, mpstat, pidstat, sadf, and related collectors.

### Project history

The upstream CHANGES file records version 1.0 on 1999-03-06 as the initial revision by Sebastien Godard, tested on Linux kernel 2.0.36. The current README carries a 1999-2025 copyright line and describes the package as system performance tools for Linux.

The package grew by adding SMP support, localization, daily activity-file rotation, binary collection and replay, RPM packaging, and additional reporting utilities. The README now describes scheduled collection through cron or systemd and export formats including CSV, XML, JSON, and SVG.

### Adoption history

sysstat packages long-running system activity collection into small commands and scheduled jobs, so it became a common package-manager install for administrators who want historical sar data without deploying a larger monitoring stack.

The supplied package-manager facts list sysstat or split binary packages across Homebrew, Alpine, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora/dnf, Nix, Arch, and openSUSE.

### How it is used

Users run iostat for device I/O, mpstat for processor statistics, pidstat for process-level activity, and sar/sadf to collect, report, save, exchange, or graph historical activity data.

The package is often installed because it creates a lightweight local performance history: sa1 stores daily binary data, sa2 creates daily reports, and sadf makes that data scriptable.

### Why package nerds care

sysstat is beloved package-manager material because it is small, scriptable, old-school Unix tooling that answers production questions quickly after a machine has already been collecting data.

It also matters to distro maintainers because its value depends on cron or systemd timers, log/data retention paths, and kernel metric compatibility rather than just shipping one binary.

### Timeline

- 1999: Version 1.0 initial revision by Sebastien Godard.
- 1999: Version 2.1 noted availability in RPM format.
- 2025: sysstat 12.7.7 made JSON output available across all sysstat commands, according to the official home-page news.

### Related projects

- sysstat packages Linux counterparts to classic commercial-Unix performance utilities, with sar as the historical anchor and sadf as the interchange/export companion.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/sysstat/sysstat>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sysstat/sysstat/master/CHANGES>
- <https://sysstat.github.io/>
- source_facts.package-manager


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Linux: @SYSCONFIG_DIR@/sysstat
## Other Package-Manager Records

- Debian apt - isag - 12.7.5-2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: isag from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Interactive System Activity Grapher for sysstat | https://sysstat.github.io/
- Debian apt - sysstat - 12.7.5-2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: sysstat from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | system performance tools for Linux | https://sysstat.github.io/
- Nix - sysstat: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/sy/sysstat/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - isag - 12.6.1-2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: isag from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Interactive System Activity Grapher for sysstat | https://sysstat.github.io/
- Ubuntu apt - sysstat - 12.6.1-2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: sysstat from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | system performance tools for Linux | https://sysstat.github.io/
- apk - sysstat - 12.7.8-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: sysstat from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Performance monitoring tools | https://sysstat.github.io/
- apk - sysstat-doc - 12.7.8-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: sysstat-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Performance monitoring tools (documentation) | https://sysstat.github.io/
- dnf - sysstat - 12.7.9-3.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: sysstat from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Collection of performance monitoring tools for Linux | https://sysstat.github.io
- pacman - sysstat - 12.7.9-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: sysstat from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | a collection of performance monitoring tools (iostat,isag,mpstat,pidstat,sadf,sar) | https://sysstat.github.io/
- zypper - sysstat - 12.7.9-1.4: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: sysstat from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Sar and Iostat Commands for Linux | https://github.com/sysstat/sysstat
- zypper - sysstat-isag - 12.7.9-1.4: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: sysstat-isag from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Interactive System Activity Grapher for sysstat | https://github.com/sysstat/sysstat


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/sysstat.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/sysstat.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph