6 Command Line Tools for Linux Performance Monitoring

6 Command Line Tools for Linux Performance Monitoring

So you need to monitor a Linux system for performance metrics... CPU, Memory, Network, Disk, etc.

Here are 6 of my favorite command line tools for monitoring a Linux system from the command line.

 

htop  http://htop.sourceforge.net/ 

dstat  http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/dstat/ 

bmon http://freshmeat.net/projects/bmon/ 

iftop  http://www.ex-parrot.com/pdw/iftop/ 

ifstat http://gael.roualland.free.fr/ifstat/ 

sysstat this is a package of utilites including iostat, mpstat, sar, and others.  http://pagesperso-orange.fr/sebastien.godard/

 

These tools are all available from package managers (apt-get, yum, etc) on most Linux systems. They are also available on most other *nix platforms.