GSmartControl provides graphical SMART monitoring for hard drives and NVMe SSDs, including health indicators, self-tests and error logs.
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GSmartControl provides graphical SMART monitoring for hard drives and NVMe SSDs, including health indicators, self-tests and error logs.
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Smartmontools monitors ATA, SCSI and NVMe drive health using SMART data, self-tests, error logs and automated warnings from smartd.
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Epoptes is a Linux computer lab management tool for screen monitoring, broadcasting, remote commands and managing student workstations.
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Grafana is a monitoring and observability platform for querying, visualising, correlating, and alerting on metrics, logs, and traces.
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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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Rusty Aquarium is a utility that’s billed as a “monitoring visualization as an aquarium” program.
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CPU-Z is a system profiling and monitoring application that detects the central processing unit, RAM, and more.
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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 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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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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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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This is the second in our series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems. The series examines both graphical and text based open source utilities. gtop is an open source system monitoring utility written in JavaScript.
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