Any way to monitor the resources of my system over time?

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Let's say I want to know how much RAM and how much CPU I consumed after an hour of having the system started, but I don't want to have top opened and be looking at it all the time.

I want a program that can write the resource usage to some kind of graph so I can look at it and see which resources I have been using at what time. I don't need it to be CLI, maybe a web app or a docker...

Thanks in advance.

Probably you are looking for something like conky: https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky Check this link (and links that you can find on your favourite search engine) to discover the potentialities of conky (and if it fits your needs). — Lorenz Keel, Feb 08 '22 at 09:58
Does this answer your question? What system monitoring tools are available? — muru, Feb 08 '22 at 10:22
Do you need something that works in the background, but you can check anytime soon to see the resources used? — Satoshi Nakamoto, Feb 08 '22 at 10:47
I think it's possible to create a script for that. Like you open the script then it shows "the last most used resources" — Satoshi Nakamoto, Feb 08 '22 at 15:24

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 08 '22 at 10:19

What you are looking for is system monitoring. I use monitorix It's open source system monitoring tool and exist in Ubuntu repository. You can install it via:

sudo apt install monitorix
sudo systemctl start monitorix

Then open the link in your browser :

http://127.0.0.1:8080/monitorix

More info: https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/how-to-use-monitorix-for-system-monitoring/ https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/monitorix

Any way to monitor the resources of my system over time?

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