collectl is a lightweight open source performance monitoring tool capable of reporting interactively as well as logging to disk.
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collectl is a lightweight open source performance monitoring tool capable of reporting interactively as well as logging to disk.
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Saidar is a curses-based free and open source application for viewing the system statistics available through libstatgrab.
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nload is a real time network traffic monitor for the text console. It displays the current network usage. Written in C++
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ntop is a network traffic probe that shows the network usage, similar to what the popular top Unix command does.
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IPTraf is an ncurses-based IP LAN monitor generating various network statistics.
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iftop is a utility that displays bandwidth usage on an interface by host.
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IPTraf-ng is a console based network statistic monitoring utility. It’s a fork of IPTraf.
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NetHogs is a small ‘net top’ tool. It is top for networks. NetHogs does not need any special kernel modules to be loaded.
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ntopng is a web-based network traffic monitoring application. It’s a passive network monitoring tool focused on flows and statistics.
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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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btop++ is an alternative to top. It’s a resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes.
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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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