# README

Cmon is a simple system resource monitoring program intended to assist in
analyzing the gap between used system resources and available system resources.

The `cmon` program is a one-shot program (it runs, measures, and exits) at this
time. To gather metrics over time, schedule it via cron, systemd timers, or a
script that runs is frequently. It stores relevant metrics in a colon delimited
file at `/tmp/cmon.status`.

**NOTE**: For highly ephemeral systems, be sure to ship the status file off of
the system frequently to ensure when the system is deleted the metrics are
persisted externally.