System Monitoring

How to Monitor and View System Statistics with Saidar – Install Saidar on Ubuntu

Post last modified:October 9, 2020
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Saidar is a free and open source command-line system statistics viewer for Linux. It is a a curses-based application to view your linux system information. It is based on libstatgrab and you can use Saidar as a real time system monitoring tool in your system. You can check CPU, processes, load, memory, swap, network I/O, disk I/O, and file system information using this tool. It is a simple and easy to use tool.

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How to install vnstat network traffic monitoring tool on Ubuntu

Post last modified:May 20, 2020
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

vnstat is a free and open source network traffic bandwidth monitoring tool for Linux and BSD. It is released under GPLv2 license. It uses kernel as information source and light use of system resources. You can get the traffic details by 5 minute, hourly, daily, monthly, weekly, yearly, top days basic. You can also get the live traffic details. It is a simple and easy to use tool. You don’t need to root access to get the details.

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How to install Bashtop on Ubuntu – Terminal Resource Monitor

Post last modified:May 6, 2020
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Bashtop is a free and open source resource monitor for Linux. Using this you can monitor your system and it shows usage and stats of your processor, network, processes, memory and disks. It comes with easy to use menu and responsive keys selection. You can filter the processes and scale UI in bashtop. It also supports SIGTERM, SIGKILL and SIGINT. It is released under open source Apache License 2.0 license. You can also switch between sorting options easily in bashtop. It support themes. This is very cool and useful command line application for terminal lovers.

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How to install Glances on Ubuntu – System Monitoring Tool

Post last modified:March 10, 2020
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Glances is a free and open source system monitoring tool for Linux, BSD, Mac OS and Windows. It is released under GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 license and written in Python. It shows CPU usage, Memory details, system Load, complete Process list, all network interface, IRQ, Raid and Disk I/O information, available sensors, your system filesystem details, system Uptime details and lot more. It also comes with build in XML-RPC server and a RESTful JSON API. Some other features are export system details to CSV, InfluxDB, Cassandra, OpenTSDB, StatsD, ElasticSearch and RabbitMQ.

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How to install Stacer on Ubuntu – Linux System Optimizer and Monitoring tool

Post last modified:August 23, 2023
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Stacer is a free Linux System Optimizer and Monitoring tool. Stacer provides seven main features for linux users. They are Dashboard system monitoring tool, System cleaner to freeup your pc space, Startup Apps management, management of system services, easy software…