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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ttop – system monitoring tool
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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htop – interactive process viewer
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
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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Conky – system monitor
Conky is an open source system monitor that can display just about anything, either on your root desktop or in its own window.
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atop – ASCII full-screen performance monitor
atop is an ASCII full-screen performance monitor, similar to the top command, but atop only shows the active system-resources and processes.
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gotop – terminal based graphical activity monitor
gotop is a terminal base graphical activity monitor which seeks inspiration from gtop and vtop.
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sysstat – collection of performance monitoring utilities
The sysstat utilities are a collection of open source performance monitoring tools for Linux. Utilities include mpstat, iostat, nfsiostat-sysstat.
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collectl – performance monitoring tool
collectl is a lightweight open source performance monitoring tool capable of reporting interactively as well as logging to disk.
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Saidar – view the system statistics available through libstatgrab
Saidar is a curses-based free and open source application for viewing the system statistics available through libstatgrab.
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7 Best Free and Open Source Console Based Network ‘top’ Tools
Out of the myriad of utilities that are available for Linux, top is a troubleshooting tool that often comes up in conversation. We recommend the best network ‘top’ tools.
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nload – real-time network traffic monitor
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 – network traffic software
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 – console-based network statistics utility
IPTraf is an ncurses-based IP LAN monitor generating various network statistics.
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iftop – display bandwidth usage on an interface
iftop is a utility that displays bandwidth usage on an interface by host.
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