There are several good articles on setting up SAR for debian (sar on ubuntu/debian) and redhat systems but I could find few on Alpine (perhaps because it is simple). In any event, here's my process for setting up sar to run periodically via cron to track server stats. Install Install with: apk add sysstat Setup Not a …

mail (from mailutils) is a common sysadmin tool for sending system mail, however, it brings in unneeded/undesired packages (e.g. mysql/mariadb tools). sendmail is much lighter and can usually get the job done. Typical mail Scenario The following cron entry runs deborphan every Monday at 14:33, emailing the results to …