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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

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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)
    – alci
    Sep 22, 2012 at 15:23
  • For a lot more detail about htop you can look at this answer: askubuntu.com/questions/787642/…
    – SDsolar
    Oct 31, 2017 at 5:42
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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 Install conky-cli

After installation, start it with conky command.

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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:

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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:

5+ “dstat” Command Usage Examples in Linux

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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/…
    – SDsolar
    Oct 31, 2017 at 18:39
  • 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
    – Andrew
    Dec 11, 2019 at 21:13
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nmon from the eponymous package.

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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.
    – Andrew
    Dec 11, 2019 at 21:16

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