sot is a terminal-based system observation tool that combines resource monitoring, process inspection and several system administration utilities. Its dashboard presents processor, memory, disk and network activity using live statistics and graphs.
Besides the main resource dashboard, sot provides separate commands for examining running processes, inspecting storage devices and benchmarking disk performance. This makes it useful when investigating an unexpectedly busy system or identifying which application is occupying a network port.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Displays CPU usage by core and thread, with interactive process sorting and memory statistics.
- Provides a dedicated process viewer with synchronised panels for running processes, listening network ports and development environments.
- Identifies development servers associated with Node.js, Python, Docker, Ruby, Go and Rust, grouping related processes.
- Offers GPU monitoring with utilisation graphs, memory usage and available temperature and power statistics. Supports NVIDIA and best-effort AMD monitoring on Linux.
- Includes an interactive disk viewer with capacity information, partition details and read/write activity.
- Benchmarks storage performance, including sequential throughput, random IOPS and latency, with optional JSON output.
- Provides system information through the
sot infocommand, together with selectable network interfaces and disks. - Includes a cleanup utility with a dry-run mode for inspecting proposed changes before removing temporary files.
Website: github.com/anistark/sot
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Developer: Kumar Anirudha
License: MIT License
sot is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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