Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit. Prometheus collects and stores its metrics as time series data.
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Tag: system monitoring
tiptop – command-line system monitoring
tiptop provides a colourful terminal dashboard for CPU, memory and network activity, using Python, Textual and psutil.
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htop – interactive process viewer
htop is an interactive process viewer with filtering, tree views, CPU affinity controls, process signals and configurable system meters.
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gotop – terminal based graphical activity monitor
gotop brings colourful terminal graphs, process monitoring, custom layouts and optional GPU statistics to a configurable Go-based dashboard.
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Pandora FMS – monitoring software for IT infrastructure management
Pandora FMS is an open source monitoring software. Watch your systems and applications, and know the status of any element of those systems.
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Xymon – system for monitoring servers and networks
Xymon is a system for monitoring of hosts and networks, inspired by the Big Brother system.
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Icinga – monitoring platform with a powerful configuration language
Icinga is a monitoring system checking the availability of network resources, notifies outages, and generates performance data for reporting.
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Monitorix – lightweight system monitoring tool
Monitorix is a free, lightweight, open source system monitoring tool designed to monitor as many services as possible.
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FreeNATS – network manager
FreeNATS is a PHP and MySQL based automatic network status testing, alerting and reporting package. FreeNATS allows you to test your network.
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NetXMS – network and infrastructure monitoring and management system
NetXMS is a network and infrastructure monitoring and management system. NetXMS is free and open source software.
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Cacti – complete network graphing solution
Cacti is an open source, web-based frontend to RRDtool, the industry standard, high performance data logging and graphing system for time series data.
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Monit – utility for managing and monitoring Unix systems
Monit is a utility for managing and monitoring processes, files, directories and filesystems on a Unix system.
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ZABBIX – real-time monitoring of millions of metrics
ZABBIX is an all-in-one 24×7 free monitoring solution that monitors numerous parameters of a network and the health and integrity of servers.
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LibreNMS – fully featured network monitoring system
LibreNMS is a fully featured network monitoring system that provides a wealth of features and device support.
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OpenNMS – platform designed for building network monitoring solutions
OpenNMS is an enterprise grade network monitoring platform developed under the Open Source model. OpenNMS has a wide variety of monitors available.
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Nagios – host and service monitor
Nagios is a host and service monitor designed to inform you of network problems. The monitoring daemon runs periodic checks on hosts and services.
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Mon – general-purpose resource monitoring system
Mon is a tool for monitoring the availability of services. Services may be network-related, environmental conditions, or more.
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14 Best Free and Open Source Linux System Monitoring Tools
System monitoring can help identify problems before they escalate to emergency status.
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Essential System Tools: nmon – Curses based Performance Monitor
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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Essential System Tools: gtop – System monitoring dashboard for the terminal
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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