This article spotlights alternative tools to uptime, a utility which tells you how long the system has been running.
The software featured here is free and open source. All tools provide a command-line interface (CLI).
| Alternatives to uptime | |
|---|---|
| tuptime | Report the historical and statistical real time of the system |
| ruptime | Poor man’s ruptime |
| w | The header show how long the system has been running |
| top | top's header also shows this information |
| who | With the -b flag who shows the date and time the system was last started |
| journalctl | With the --list-boots flag |
| uptimed | Uptime record daemon |
| downtimed | System downtime monitoring and reporting tool |
| lastwake | Wake/suspend time system journal analyzer |
Have we missed any open source alternatives to uptime? Please let us know!
All the CLI tools in this series.
| Alternatives to CLI tools |
|---|
| age // awk // bc // cal // cat // cd // chmod // cksum // cloc // cmp // compress // cp // cron // curl // cut // date // dd // df // diff // dig // du // fdisk // file // find // free // ftp // grep // gzip // hexdump // history // jq // kill // less // locate // ls // lsof // make // man // more // mv / ping // ps // psql // rename // rm // sed // split // ssh // stow // strings // sudo // sysctl // tail // talk // tar // telnet // time // top // touch // traceroute // tree // uname // uniq // uptime // vi // watch // Wget // who // whois // xargs |
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