Is there a way to start system monitor app, from the console ?? I am not talking about terminal. I am talking about Ctrl + Alt + F1 mode
4 Answers
you can use htop
also and its more featured than top .
if you want to test it , then you have install it with
sudo apt-get install htop
after that type htop
.
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Depending on what your interested in, you might also want a specilized monitoring tool like iptraf, to monitor network traffic (very useful on a router)– alciSep 22, 2012 at 15:23
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For a lot more detail about
htop
you can look at this answer: askubuntu.com/questions/787642/…– SDsolarOct 31, 2017 at 5:42
You can try the top
command to have a system monitor in console. It will display the CPU usage for the processes running in your machine.
Another alternative is conky-cli. You can install it with the command
sudo apt-get install conky-cli
or using the link conky-cli
After installation, start it with conky
command.
One option is to use dstat
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install dstat
then run it by simply entering
dstat
to get this default output which updates every second and provides column headers with every screenful:
The advantage dstat
has over htop
is the same that System-Monitor
has, namely that it shows trends.
dstat
is very versatile. Here is an article that explains the command line switches and shows some of the advanced options:
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After writing this post I discovered that it works well to use Xming with PuTTY to get an X11 terminal over ssh - not on point of the question, but useful info even though the character terminal is much, much faster: askubuntu.com/questions/971171/…– SDsolarOct 31, 2017 at 18:39
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Thanks for the suggestion. I like how dstat has few dependencies, shows trends, and combines all CPUs. I only wish the CPU history were graphical instead of numerical– AndrewDec 11, 2019 at 21:13
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nmon is great! It shows historical trends for CPU usage, combines all CPUs into one chart, works on the console, and has light package dependencies.– AndrewDec 11, 2019 at 21:16