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Welcome to the optisys wiki!

OptiSys Wiki

Welcome to the OptiSys wiki.

OptiSys is a Linux system diagnostics and profiling CLI with:

  • built-in collectors for hardware, kernel, drivers, services, packages, and logs
  • plugin support for custom collectors
  • JSON and YAML export
  • local SQLite-backed scan history
  • cached report backfill into the history database

Quick links

Common commands

Run a scan

optisys scan

Export the latest cached scan

optisys export --output report.json

Backfill cached JSON reports into SQLite history

optisys history backfill

List recent scan history

optisys history list

History features

OptiSys now supports local historical tracking with SQLite.

  • Default database path: ~/.local/share/optisys/history.db
  • Override with: OPTISYS_HISTORY_DB
  • Disable per-run history recording with:
    • optisys scan --no-record-history

Plugins

Plugins can be loaded from:

  • Python entry points in the optisys.collectors group
  • drop-in plugin files in ~/.config/optisys/plugins/

Useful plugin commands:

  • optisys plugins list
  • optisys plugins inspect <key>
  • optisys plugins dir

Next suggested wiki pages

  • Installation
  • Plugin Development
  • History and Trend Analysis
  • Troubleshooting