Ondrej MoravekJan 15, 2025
Jeff Geerling

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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Show threadmmu_manJan 15, 2025
@geerlingguy I still prefer Conky on the desktop but that's just me 😄
Show threadDepleted VeteranJan 15, 2025
@geerlingguy take a look at bpytop
https://github.com/aristocratos/bpytop
Show threadbyquantonJan 15, 2025
@sgtnasty @geerlingguy bpytop is from the same developer and no longer maintained. (btop is the c++ rewrite from bpytop)
Show threadLautreG, souvent dans la LuneJan 15, 2025

@geerlingguy

Super!

j'utilisais bpytop. Avant... 😀

Show threadChris​‌​‬ Hayes‌​​​Jan 15, 2025
@geerlingguy idk if other tops can top this.
Show threadIain CuthbertsonJan 15, 2025
@geerlingguy FYI, the blog post linked in the video description is showing "Accessed Denied".
Show threadAndreas H.Jan 15, 2025
@bigcalm @geerlingguy At this moment they link works for me, no access denied. 🙂
Show threadJeff GeerlingJan 16, 2025
@bigcalm sorry about that! I had forgotten to hit publish!
Show threadIain CuthbertsonJan 16, 2025

@geerlingguy No apologies need :)

Was intended as a heads-up in case something was awry after the website config incident.

Glad all is well :)

Show threadAlavi | علویJan 15, 2025
@geerlingguy
Btop is the GOAT
Show threadGilbert PilzJan 15, 2025
@geerlingguy My problem with most monitoring tools is that there is no way to aggregate the usage of groups of related processes. The canonical example of this is Google Chrome Helper. Seeing 40 different copies of Google Chrome Helper each consuming X amount of memory and Y amount of CPU doesn't tell me that Chrome, as a whole, is consuming X' memory and Y' CPU.
Show threadMelroy van den BergJan 15, 2025
@geerlingguy You need to use those cores... like me #threadripper
Show threadMike StoneJan 15, 2025
@geerlingguy I love btop! I've been using it since the bashtop days, and it's only gotten better over the years. Thanks for this post. It finally motivated me to update my config so the terminal transparency levels were respected.
Show threadHalil-Cem GürsoyJan 15, 2025
@geerlingguy
BTW, it is available on macOS via Homebrew: brew install btop
Show threadfolkert van heusdenJan 15, 2025

@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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Show threadFishyJan 15, 2025
@geerlingguy ha! I going to ask about that after seeing a tool in your latest video (“honey I nuked the server”)
Show threadMike PlemmonsJan 16, 2025
@geerlingguy First used this tool in my time as an AIX admin but it also works on Linux. nmon. https://nmon.sourceforge.io/pmwiki.php
nmon and njmon | Main / HomePage

Show threadMike FraserJan 16, 2025
@geerlingguy Fancy Htop.
Show threadMike Piatek-JimenezJan 17, 2025

@geerlingguy Thanks for covering terminal monitors. I hadn't used btop or nvtop before, so it was cool to check those out. If you're looking for a graphical monitor for your Mac, you might want to try XRG. I started developing it years ago when I switched from FreeBSD to macOS and missed gkrellm.

https://gaucho.software/xrg/

XRG

Show threadIan RogersJan 17, 2025
@geerlingguy For perf checkout @b0rk 's webzine https://wizardzines.com/zines/perf/
Profiling & tracing with perf

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