Uptime and Load Average Audit

Difficulty: entry

Source: devops-interviews/devops-interview-questions by Alex Muradov

Answer

Scenario

A Linux server is under review for stability and recent performance evaluation.

Task

Use the uptime command to determine how long the server has been running and extract the 15-minute load average as a floating-point number (e.g., 0.45). Save the uptime to /home/devops/uptime.txt and the 15-minute load average to /home/devops/loadavg.txt.

Example

Contents of `/home/devops/uptime.txt`: `2 days, 5:37`

Contents of `/home/devops/loadavg.txt`: `0.45`

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