People often ask me about this fancy-looking Linux monitoring tool when they see me using it in my videos—it's called 'btop' and it's available via the package manager of almost every modern Linux distro (e.g. `sudo apt install btop`)

I posted a video on my 2nd channel with my 'top' 10 list of Linux (and macOS, and sometimes even Windows!) monitoring tools you can run in the console—for CPU, power, network, disk, etc.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4isEhE2rvmA

Top 10 ways to monitor Linux in a Terminal

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@geerlingguy if you want your terminal http-ping look more interesting then maybe httping in ncurses mode is interesting as well
e.g.:
httping -K www.vanheusden.com

https://github.com/folkertvanheusden/httping

preview: https://vanheusden.com/permshare/httping.webm

GitHub - folkertvanheusden/HTTPing: Ping an HTTP server

Ping an HTTP server. Contribute to folkertvanheusden/HTTPing development by creating an account on GitHub.

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