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NetWatch – htop for your network

March 12, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

NetWatch is a lightweight, keyboard-driven TUI application that gives you instant visibility into network traffic.

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Monitor System

ibtop – real-time terminal monitor

December 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ibtop is a real-time terminal monitor for InfiniBand networks – htop for high-speed interconnects.

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Utility

RustNet – cross-platform network monitoring tool

October 24, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

RustNet provides real-time visibility into network connections with detailed state information, connection lifecycle management, and more.

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Monitor System

Updo – website monitoring tool

August 25, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

Updo is a command-line tool for monitoring website uptime and performance. It provides real-time metrics on website status, response time…

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Monitor System

TkmViewer – analyse TaskMonitor output

July 31, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

TkmViewer is a graphical user interface to visualize output SQLite3 data format from the TaskMonitor daemon.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Process Explorer

June 4, 2025 Steve Emms System Software, Utilities

Process Explorer is a task manager and system monitor It provides the functionality of Windows Task Manager along with additional features.

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8 Best Free and Open Source NVIDIA GPU Monitoring Tools

May 2, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software

nvidia-smi is a basic monitoring and management tool for NVIDIA graphics card. We explore other useful NVIDIA GPU monitoring tools.

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Sniffnet – monitor your internet traffic

November 7, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

Sniffnet is a network monitoring tool to help you easily keep track of your internet traffic.

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JupyterLab NVDashboard – JupyterLab extension for displaying dashboards of GPU usage

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

JupyterLab NVDashboard is a JupyterLab extension for displaying GPU usage dashboards.

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NVTOP – (h)top like task monitor for AMD, Intel and NVIDIA GPUs

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

NVTOP (Neat Videocard TOP) is an (h)top like task monitor for AMD, Intel and NVIDIA GPUs.

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nvidia-htop – enriches the output of nvidia-smi

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

nvidia-htop is a tool for enriching the output of nvidia-smi. This is free and open source software written in Python.

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gpustat – query and monitor GPU status

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

gpustat is a simple command-line utility for querying and monitoring GPU status. gpustat works only with NVIDIA Graphics Devices only.

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Log Analyzers

s-tui is a terminal-based stress test and monitoring tool

September 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Stress-Terminal UI, s-tui, is a monitoring tool for your CPU’s temperature, frequency, power and utilization

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System Administration

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Activity Monitor

May 26, 2023 Steve Emms Software, System Software

Activity Monitor displays a variety of resources in use on a system in real time. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: Rusty Aquarium – monitoring by visualization

March 4, 2022 John O'Donnell Desktop, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Rusty Aquarium is a utility that’s billed as a “monitoring visualization as an aquarium” program.

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CPU-Z

Best Free Android Apps: CPU-Z – system profiling and monitoring

April 3, 2021 Eilidih Parris Android, Reviews, Software, System Software

CPU-Z is a system profiling and monitoring application that detects the central processing unit, RAM, and more.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: eDEX-UI – sci-fi computer terminal emulator and system monitor

September 7, 2020 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

eDEX-UI is a fullscreen, cross-platform terminal emulator and system monitor that looks and feels like a sci-fi computer interface.

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BpyTOP

BpyTOP – resource monitor tool

September 4, 2020 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

BpyTOP is a resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes. It’s a Python port of bashtop. Here’s our review.

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System Administration

Excellent System Utilities: Glances – CLI curses-based monitoring tool

July 27, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, System Software, Utilities

Glances is a system administration tool that replaces a whole host of command-line utilities. Here’s our review of Glances.

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System Administration

Essential System Tools: nmon – Curses based Performance Monitor

January 23, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, System Software

nmon is short for Nigel’s performance Monitor for Linux. It’s a very versatile tool that can be shaped to your exact requirements. It fully warrants its place in our Essential System Tools feature.

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