python3 -m venv "$LF_VENV"
 PATH="$LF_VENV/bin:$PATH"
 python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
+# on Debian-9 lftools needs to be installed before it is upgraded
+# in order to get the latest version.
+if [ "$OS_ID" = "debian"  ] && [ "$OS_VERSION_ID" = "9" ] ; then
+    python3 -m pip install lftools
+fi
 python3 -m pip install --upgrade --upgrade-strategy eager lftools
 PATH="$OLD_PATH"
 
 fi
 
 echo "$long_line"
+
+# Avoid sar anomaly on centos-7 in global-jjb/shell/logs-deploy.sh
+#
+# Note: VPP 20.09 will be removed in the next release cycle (21.10),
+#       therefore this hack is better than polluting the docker image
+#       build scripts with code to avoid installing sysstat on centos-7.
+#
+# TODO: Remove when vpp-*-2009-centos7-x86_64 jobs are removed
+if [ "$OS_ID" = "centos" ] && [ "$OS_VERSION_ID" = "7"  ] ; then
+    sudo yum remove -y sysstat >& /dev/null || true
+fi
 
 long_line="************************************************************************"
 downloads_cache="/root/Downloads"
 
+# Node info
 echo "$long_line"
 echo "Executor Runtime Attributes:"
 echo "OS: $OS_ID-$OS_VERSION_ID"
     echo "Unknown Executor: '$dockerfile' not found!"
 fi
 
+# Performance analysis
+perf_trials=2
+perf_interval=1
+if [ "$OS_ID" == "ubuntu" ] || [ "$OS_ID" = "debian" ] ; then
+    SYSSTAT_PATH="/var/log/sysstat"
+elif [ "$OS_ID" == "centos" ] ; then
+    if [ "$OS_VERSION_ID" = "7" ] ; then
+        SYSSTAT_PATH="/var/log/sa/sa02"
+    else
+        SYSSTAT_PATH="/var/log/sa"
+    fi
+fi
+echo "$long_line"
+echo "Virtual memory stat"
+vmstat ${perf_interval} ${perf_trials}
+echo "CPU time breakdowns per CPU"
+mpstat -P ALL ${perf_interval}  ${perf_trials}
+echo "Per-process summary"
+pidstat ${perf_interval} ${perf_trials}
+echo "Block device stats"
+iostat -xz ${perf_interval} ${perf_trials}
+echo "Memory utilization"
+free -m
+echo "Network interface throughput"
+sar -n DEV -o ${SYSSTAT_PATH} ${perf_interval} ${perf_trials}
+echo "TCP metrics"
+sar -n TCP,ETCP -o ${SYSSTAT_PATH} ${perf_interval} ${perf_trials}
+
+# SW stack
 echo "$long_line"
 echo "Executor package list:"
 if [ "$OS_ID" == "ubuntu" ] || [ "$OS_ID" = "debian" ] ; then