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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Zenith – turbo-charged top utility
Zenith is software that’s similar to top but displays histograms, and a wealth of other information such as CPU, GPU, network, and disk usage.
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vtop – graphical activity monitor for the command line
vtop uses drawille to draw CPU and memory charts with Unicode braille characters, helping you visualize spikes.
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TTV – term-task-viewer
TTV is a lightweight terminal tool to manage processes in Unix machines.
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tiptop – command-line system monitoring
tiptop is a command-line system monitoring tool in the spirit of top. It displays various interesting system stats and graphs them.
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below – time traveling resource monitor
below is an interactive tool to view and record historical system data.
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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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