Monitor your system directly from the Terminal with the help of this nifty CLI tool. #CLI System Monitor #System Monitor #Monitor System #System #Monitor #CPU
One could argue that there's something remarkably satisfying about using a good CLI tool for basic tasks. After all, command line-based tools do have some very important inherent advantages over their counterparts with proper GUIs mainly regarding speed and low system resource consumption.
There are numerous very awesome CLI system monitoring tools for Linux such as btop, bashtop, top, bpytop, and htop, just to name some of the most popular ones. However, the new kid on the block, Gotop, promises to offer similar functionalities, including some very nifty customization options.
According to its GitHub page, Gotop is "another terminal-based graphical activity monitor, inspired by gtop and vtop, this time written in Go."
By default, the application displays various useful stats such as the CPU usage (per core as % and graph), the disk usage (including % free space), CPU temperature, memory usage, network usage (graph plus the total amount of data sent and received), as well as a process table (CPU + MEM stats).
Another great aspect of Gotop is the way it looks. For a CLI-based tool, it looks rather funky with its nice and colorful dashboard. What's even more impressive about Gotop is its customization potential. You can heavily tweak the default look and feel of the app by changing its layout, widgets, color schemes, and so forth.
Last but not least, Gotop is a very easy-to-use tool. Simply launch a Terminal session, and type the following command "gotop -l" to start it open. You can use the "gotop -l kitchensink" for an extra array of information, the "c" key to re-order the process table by CPU usage, "m" to order the process table by the amount of memory in use, "p" to sort by PID, and "h" and "l" to scale the CPU graph.
If you're a fan of CLI-based system monitoring tool that end with "top," then there's a good chance you'll like Gotop. It's fast, light on system resources, it looks nice, it's free and open-source, and it has various customization options that most other tools of this sort do not.
What's new in Gotop 4.2.0:
- I've been trying to focus on clearing out bugs; unfortunately, many of these are on platforms I don't have access to, which really slows me down. At the same time, the stuff I could easily work on, including some of the exciting (well, exciting to me) features has completely halted because of my guilt about the bugs. In the meantime, I've been working on other projects.
- Thank goodness for all you wonderful people submitting PRs. These folks keep things moving, and despite my languid approach to merging, the contributions are so very appreciated. Consequently, this release really is brought to you by contributors:
- Solène Rapenne (@rapenne-s), who added gotop to Nix
- Anatol Pomozov (@anatol) for:
Gotop 4.2.0
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- Linux
- filename:
- gotop_v4.2.0_linux_amd64.deb
- main category:
- System
- developer:
- visit homepage
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