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24 Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to the Top Utility

December 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

top is a small, venerable utility that offers a dynamic real-time view of a running system. We identify alternatives to top that offer more control in managing processes on a running system.

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8 Best Free and Open Source Console Based Network ‘top’ Tools

December 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Roundup, System Software

Out of the myriad of utilities that are available for Linux, top is a troubleshooting tool that often comes up in conversation. We recommend the best network ‘top’ tools.

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sot – system observation tool

December 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

sot is a Command-line System Observation Tool in the spirit of top. It’s free and open source software written in Python.

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Lyvoxa Stellar – Linux system monitor

November 16, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Built in Rust, it aims to offer an intuitive Terminal User Interface (TUI) with advanced features for modern system administration.

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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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dgop – system monitoring tool with CLI and REST API

October 12, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

dgop is a system monitoring tool with CLI and REST API that can be used standalone, or as a companion for DankMaterialShell.

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socktop – remote system monitor with a rich TUI

September 15, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI, Utilities

socktop is a remote system monitor with a rich TUI, inspired by top/btop, talking to a lightweight agent over WebSockets.

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Evisum – Enlightenment system monitor

January 30, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

Evisum is a system monitor using Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL).

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Zenith – turbo-charged top utility

December 5, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews

Zenith is software that’s similar to top but displays histograms, and a wealth of other information such as CPU, GPU, network, and disk usage.

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vtop – graphical activity monitor for the command line

December 2, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

vtop uses drawille to draw CPU and memory charts with Unicode braille characters, helping you visualize spikes.

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TTV – term-task-viewer

December 1, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

TTV is a lightweight terminal tool to manage processes in Unix machines.

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tiptop – command-line system monitoring

November 30, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

tiptop is a command-line system monitoring tool in the spirit of top. It displays various interesting system stats and graphs them.

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below – time traveling resource monitor

November 29, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

below is an interactive tool to view and record historical system data.

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ttop – system monitoring tool

November 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

ttop is a system monitoring tool with historical snapshots and alerts. It has a top-like TUI. It’s written in Nim.

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htop – interactive process viewer

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

htop is an interactive and real time process monitoring application similar to the venerable top utility. This application is written in C.

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bottom – cross-platform graphical process/system monitor

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

bottom is customizable cross-platform graphical process/system monitor for the terminal. The tool is inspired by gtop, gotop, and htop.

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Conky – system monitor

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Conky is an open source system monitor that can display just about anything, either on your root desktop or in its own window.

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atop – ASCII full-screen performance monitor

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

atop is an ASCII full-screen performance monitor, similar to the top command, but atop only shows the active system-resources and processes.

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gotop – terminal based graphical activity monitor

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gotop is a terminal base graphical activity monitor which seeks inspiration from gtop and vtop.

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sysstat – collection of performance monitoring utilities

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

The sysstat utilities are a collection of open source performance monitoring tools for Linux. Utilities include mpstat, iostat, nfsiostat-sysstat.

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