# vmstat cacti template?

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/vmstat-cacti-template/3507>\
**Category:** Percona Monitoring Plugins\
**Created:** [May 28, 2014, 7:35am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/vmstat-cacti-template/3507 "2014-05-28T07:35:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![ronix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b3f665/32.png) [@ronix](https://forums.percona.com/u/ronix)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 7:35am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/vmstat-cacti-template/3507/1 "2014-05-28T07:35:12Z")

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I am looking for a cacti template that utilizes the vmstat switch. I realize I can probably create a template for this, but I am hoping somebody has already done it, since there is actually a section in the script: ss\_get\_by\_ssh.php for “–type vmstat”

Thanks for any information you can give,

Ron

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**Author:** ![weber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/da6949/32.png) [@weber](https://forums.percona.com/u/weber)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2014, 11:16am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/vmstat-cacti-template/3507/2 "2014-05-31T11:16:26Z")

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The existing cacti template/script uses --type vmstat (the file /proc/vmstat) only to get pswpin and pswpout for “Swap Usage” linux graph.