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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Tag: system monitoring
Pandora FMS – monitoring software for IT infrastructure management
Pandora FMS is an open source monitoring software. Watch your systems and applications, and know the status of any element of those systems.
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Xymon – system for monitoring servers and networks
Xymon is a system for monitoring of hosts and networks, inspired by the Big Brother system.
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Icinga – monitoring platform with a powerful configuration language
Icinga is a monitoring system checking the availability of network resources, notifies outages, and generates performance data for reporting.
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Monitorix – lightweight system monitoring tool
Monitorix is a free, lightweight, open source system monitoring tool designed to monitor as many services as possible.
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FreeNATS – network manager
FreeNATS is a PHP and MySQL based automatic network status testing, alerting and reporting package. FreeNATS allows you to test your network.
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NetXMS – network and infrastructure monitoring and management system
NetXMS is a network and infrastructure monitoring and management system. NetXMS is free and open source software.
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Cacti – complete network graphing solution
Cacti is an open source, web-based frontend to RRDtool, the industry standard, high performance data logging and graphing system for time series data.
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Monit – utility for managing and monitoring Unix systems
Monit is a utility for managing and monitoring processes, files, directories and filesystems on a Unix system.
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ZABBIX – real-time monitoring of millions of metrics
ZABBIX is an all-in-one 24×7 free monitoring solution that monitors numerous parameters of a network and the health and integrity of servers.
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LibreNMS – fully featured network monitoring system
LibreNMS is a fully featured network monitoring system that provides a wealth of features and device support.
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OpenNMS – platform designed for building network monitoring solutions
OpenNMS is an enterprise grade network monitoring platform developed under the Open Source model. OpenNMS has a wide variety of monitors available.
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Nagios – host and service monitor
Nagios is a host and service monitor designed to inform you of network problems. The monitoring daemon runs periodic checks on hosts and services.
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Mon – general-purpose resource monitoring system
Mon is a tool for monitoring the availability of services. Services may be network-related, environmental conditions, or more.
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14 Best Free and Open Source Linux System Monitoring Tools
System monitoring can help identify problems before they escalate to emergency status.
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