nfswatch

The Network File System (NFS) is a popular file-sharing protocol in UNIX and Linux environments. Historically, managing and monitoring NFS traffic has been critical for understanding performance issues and maintaining the health of IT infrastructure. Fortunately, there's a handy command-line utility called nfswatch that provides administrators with real-time insights into NFS file system activity. In this blog post, we will explore what Nfswatch does, and how you can install and use it on various Linux distributions. Nfswatch is a tool designed to monitor all incoming network traffic to an NFS server and display a summary of this traffic. It provides statistics about NFS operations, such as read, write, and mount requests.