AIX Server Overview — Native Prometheus monitoring for IBM Power
Comprehensive AIX server monitoring dashboard powered by AIX-exporter, a native Prometheus exporter for IBM Power Systems. Visualizes CPU (user/sys/wait/SPURR per logical CPU), memory, paging, network, filesystems, and process activity — all without intermediate scripts or syslog hacks.
About this dashboard
This dashboard provides comprehensive server-level monitoring for IBM AIX systems through the AIX-exporter, a native Prometheus exporter purpose-built for IBM Power Systems.
It is designed for infrastructure teams running AIX workloads in production who need first-class observability — without fragile shell scripts, syslog hacks, or generic SNMP collectors.
What you'll see
- CPU: user / sys / wait / idle per logical CPU, Physical Core Usage (SPURR), entitled vs consumed capacity
- Memory: real memory, computational vs file pages, pinned memory, paging space activity
- Storage: filesystem usage, JFS2 stats, I/O latency per disk, multipathing health
- Network: throughput per interface, errors, packet rates
- Processes: top processes by CPU and memory, run queue, load average
- System: uptime, kernel parameters, partition info (LPAR mode, entitled capacity, virtual processors)
How to use this dashboard
This dashboard requires:
AIX-exporter — native Prometheus exporter for IBM AIX reading from libperfstat, ODM, and AIX system commands. Listens on port 9106 by default.
Prometheus — any standard Prometheus instance scraping AIX-exporter (self-hosted or Grafana Cloud)
Standard labels — the exporter exposes sensible defaults (hostname, partition_name, lpar_id, system_serial)
About AIXwatch
This dashboard is part of AIXwatch, native observability tools for IBM Power Systems built by Nicolas Gravillon, infrastructure engineer with 25 years of AIX, PowerHA, and SAN/Storage experience (BCSD certified).
AIX-exporter and Loki Agent for AIX are designed to bring your IBM Power workloads into the modern observability stack — Prometheus, Grafana, Loki — natively, without compromises.
🔗 Learn more: https://aixwatch.com 🔗 AIX-exporter product page: https://aixwatch.com
Feedback
Found a bug or have suggestions? Reach out via aixwatch.com/contact or connect on LinkedIn.
License
This dashboard is provided as-is under MIT license. AIX-exporter is a commercial product with perpetual licensing ($115/LPAR).
Data source config
Collector config:
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