This cookbook installs sysstat, enables it and allows you to configure the frequency at which it collects statistics.
node['sar']['enabled'] - If sysstat logging is enabled (Default: true) node['sar']['sa1_options'] - Configure sa1_options for systat config (Default: '-S DISK') node['sar']['sa2_options'] - Configure sa2_options for systat config (Default: '') node['sar']['cron']['run_every_minutes'] - Sets time between statistic collection cron job (Default: 2)
Clone cookbook repository as sar
Somewhere in your recipe, include the sar recipe and add it as a dependency in your metadata.rb
metadata.rb depends 'sar'
your_recipe.rb include_recipe 'sar'
This has been tested on Ubuntu but should work on Debian like systems and maybe others. If there is a need for this on another system, I'd be glad to implemenet functionality for this.