Monitor folder size

[grommir]

I have a server with folder and subfolders. Need to monitor the size of the subfolders.
Monitor with "vfs.dir.size" is not an option due to large number of files in these subfolders.

How it possible to monitor size of this folders without stressing system with the du command?

[Alfista]

Hi,

for this is in zabbix agent v4 a command vfs.dir.count.
I use it a longer time. Only its needed to have open enough instances of agent, longer timeout and some other parameters, while when you will use more this commands and will have there many files, you will see errors in zabbix.
Its needed to play with it, but its work perfectly.

[grommir]

At the moment I don't need to count files, but I need to calculate the size of the subfolders.

[Alfista]

OK, then use the command vfs.dir.size, its also included.

[Alfista]

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/4.2/manual/config/items/itemtypes/zabbix_agent

[grommir]

As i said before: vfs.dir.size is not an option because of tons of files in subfolders.

[Alfista]

Why not? It can count also subfolders in the deep you will.

max_depth - maximum depth of subdirectories to traverse. -1 (default) - unlimited, 0 - no descending into subdirectories.

I thing its the easiest way how to do it. It only need some tuning around.

[grommir]

How will max_depth help if the folder contains about 3 million files?