Showing posts with label Some useful resource usage monitoring tools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Some useful resource usage monitoring tools. Show all posts

Monday, May 9, 2011

Some useful resource usage monitoring tools for Linux

ps -- of course (especially with 'fuax' options ... pipe to 'less')

psgrep -- filter output of process summary

top -- Can be run with commandline

htop -- Very handy

atop -- Active and cumulative resource monitoring
cnt -- Kernel patch req'd to get full function out of atop. Anyone know more details on this?

nethogs -- shows the top gobblers of network bandwitdh :)

iptraf - ANSI-colored text interactive IP traffic summary and monitoring tool

Also: netstat, mrtg, iftop, tcpdump, wireshark, netstat -anp --inet, http://www.ubuntugeek.com/bandwidth-monitoring-tools-for-linux.html, SystemTap, http://ettercap.sourceforge.net/, http://members.optushome.com.au/emikulic/net/darkstat/, http://ex-parrot.com/~pdw/iftop/, http://gael.roualland.free.fr/ifstat/, ...