WMLUG September 2017

System Resource Monitoring Tools

Patrick TenHoopen

System Resource Monitoring Tools

● top● htop● vtop● gtop● GKrellM● GNOME System Monitor● Cockpit● Conky● Stacer● KSysGuard - KDE System Guard● netdata

top

http://www.manpages.info/linux/top.1.html● top is a terminal program that shows process

activity.● It can sort info by CPU usage, memory usage,

etc., and manage processes.

htop

http://hisham.hm/htop/● htop is an enhanced top program.● It can sort info by CPU usage, memory usage,

etc., and manage processes.

vtop

https://github.com/MrRio/vtop● vtop is a nodejs-based terminal program to

monitor system resources and manage processes.

gtop

https://github.com/aksakalli/gtop● gtop is a nodejs-based system monitoring

dashboard for the terminal.

GKrellM

http://gkrellm.srcbox.net/● GKrellM displays a stacked set of system

monitors with many built-in monitors (Sensors, Clock, CPU, Proc, Disk, Internet, Net, Memory, File System, Mail, Battery, Uptime) and some external plug-ins available.

● Right-click the top of the window or F1 for overall configuration.

● Right-click each activated monitor section for its configuration.

GNOME System Monitor

https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-system-monitor/3.26/

● The GNOME System Monitor is a process manager that also shows graphs of processor, memory, and network activity.

Cockpit

http://cockpit-project.org/Cockpit is a web-based system manager with some resource monitoring.Access it at http://127.0.0.1:9090/

Conky

https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky/wikiConky is a light-weight theme-able system monitor.

Stacer

https://github.com/oguzhaninan/Stacer● Stacer is system monitor with a system

cleaning utility, startup program manager, service and process manager, and program manager.

KSysGuard - KDE System Guard

● https://www.kde.org/applications/system/ksysguard/

● KSysGuard is a system resource monitor and process manager.

netdata

https://github.com/firehol/netdata● netdata provides real-time performance and

health monitoring for local and distributed systems.