what are the system monitor applications avaliable?

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May I know what are the system monitor applications available in Ubuntu (GUI/CLI)?

posted to help others. even its a basic one. may be some of us missing some awesome tools. down there I am posting what I know. Please improve it if you know anything new. — Raja G, Mar 05 '14 at 12:11
possible duplicate of A light alternative to gnome-system-monitor? — kamil, Mar 05 '14 at 12:18
I don't think this is too broad, basically because a limited number of answers is possible (and in fact there is a very good answer). I am voting to reopen, but let's see where democracy takes us. — don.joey, Mar 05 '14 at 14:00
Okay I will wait. If no changes , I can think it is the time. @don.joey thanks for your support. — Raja G, Mar 05 '14 at 14:05

Maythux · Answer 1 · 2014-03-05T12:23:12.240

ndicator-SysMonitor Indicator-SysMonitor does a little, but does it well. Once installed and run, it displays CPU and RAM usage on your top panel. Simple.

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Download from here

Conky

One of my personal favourites

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Screenlet you’ll find a bunch of differently styled CPU and RAM monitors included in the screenlets-all package available in the Ubuntu Software Center.

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Glances

To install:

sudo apt-get install python-pip build-essential python-dev
sudo pip install Glances
sudo pip install PySensors

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VMSTAT

Displays information about CPU, memory, processes, etc.

IOSTAT

This command line tool will display statistics about your CPU, I/O information for your hard disk partitions, Network File System (NFS), etc. To install iostat, run this command:

sudo apt-get install sysstat

To start the report, run this command:

iostat

To check only CPU statistics, use this command:

iostat -c

For more parameters, use this command:

iostat --help

MPSTAT

The mpstat command line utility will display average CPU usage per processor. To run it, use simply this command:

mpstat

For CPU usage per processor, use this command:

mpstat -P ALL

Saidar

Saidar also allows to monitor system device activities via the command line.

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You can install is with this command:

sudo apt-get install saidar

To start monitoring, run this command:

saidar -c -d 1

Stats will be refreshed every second.

GKrellM

GKrellM is a customizable widget with various themes that displays on your desktop system device information (CPU, temperature, memory, network, etc.).

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To install GKrellM, run this command:

sudo apt-get install gkrellm

Monitorix

Monitorix is another application with a web-based user interface for monitoring system devices.

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Install it with these commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:upubuntu-com/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install monitorix

Start Monitorix via this URL:

http://localhost/monitorix/

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 05 '14 at 13:11

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You also have iotop to monitor I/O

Run it as,

sudo iotop

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answered Mar 05 '14 at 13:11

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Raja G · Answer 3 · 2014-03-05T12:37:19.660

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AFAIK

Gnome System monitor

This is default in every Ubuntu installation. Just type as monitor in Unity dash and it will list you.

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2 . top

This is a CLI tool , Open your terminal and and type top and you can view it.

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This is not default one . you have to install it by using

sudo apt-get install htop

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4 . nmon

This is also not default one. You have to install it manually with

sudo apt-get install nmon

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hope that helps.

edited Mar 05 '14 at 12:37

answered Mar 05 '14 at 12:07

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Writing "hope that helps" on your own question is just wrong. – Alvar Mar 05 '14 at 12:33
@Alvar read my comment please. Help to others – Raja G Mar 05 '14 at 12:38

what are the system monitor applications avaliable?

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