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There is an oom kill count in Linux! - OpsOps - Medium

George ShuklinFollowPublished inOpsOpsDec 1--I’ve missed this completely. Linux is exposing oom_kill value in the /proc/vmstat. It’s there since 2.6.36.It is read by node exporter as node_vmstat_oom_kill metric.It may be obvious for most people, but my old way was to detect OOMs through parsing of kernel messages (dmesg), and it was complicated, slow and a bit unreliable.It’s much easier to test and to react.With Linux 6.6 been released I’m a bit slow to notice it. But it’s better now, then neve...

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