

Have a look at additional screenshots with explanations.Įven more top and htop alternatives: net-tools, iptraf, collectl, dstat, iostat, sar, saidar, and vmstat. Honestly, one screenshot isn’t enough for nmon. Either on the screen (command line) or after saving data to a comma-separated file for analysis and longer-term data capture.

Nmon is another htop alternative system administrator tool for server tuning, benchmarking, or viewing detailed system performance information. Stats can also be exported to external time/value databases. Glances is written in Python and uses the psutil library to get information from your system. Remote monitoring can be done via terminal, Web interface, or API (XMLRPC and RESTful).

Glances is an excellent htop alternative as it can adapt dynamically when displaying system information, depending on the terminal size. Glances aims to present the max amount of information in the minimum amount of space. Glances is open-source software to monitor and collect operating system statistics. Since the three aforementioned system monitoring tools can hold their own quite easily, I’ll focus on two alternatives, which I believe can hold their own as replacements or at least complement top and htop.
