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20 Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to the Top Utility

February 5, 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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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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Monitor System

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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