Sizler

Actively monitor and send email alerts about disk utilization for AWS or other Linux instances

Details

• This script utilizes ssmtp and routes emails through gmail

Install

• Install ssmtp on Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install ssmtp
• Configure Gmail how you want SMTP to be routed
• Add a cronjob with "crontab -e" and set it like this (runs every 8 hours): 0 */8 * * * /home/username/sizler.sh

Notes

• In addition to the cronjob, you can copy this to your .profile to run when logging into SSH, etc
• The script also outputs an updated status of disk usage into /tmp