btop VS iotop

Compare btop vs iotop and see what are their differences.

btop

A monitor of resources (by aristocratos)

iotop

A top utility for IO (by Tomas-M)
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btop iotop
102 4
15,787 331
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9.3 7.8
5 days ago 10 days ago
C++ C
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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btop

Posts with mentions or reviews of btop. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-02.

iotop

Posts with mentions or reviews of iotop. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-25.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing btop and iotop you can also consider the following projects:

bpytop - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor

bashtop - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor

bottom - Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.

nvtop - GPU & Accelerator process monitoring for AMD, Apple, Huawei, Intel, NVIDIA and Qualcomm

glances - Glances an Eye on your system. A top/htop alternative for GNU/Linux, BSD, Mac OS and Windows operating systems.

htop - htop - an interactive process viewer

asitop - Perf monitoring CLI tool for Apple Silicon

awesome-alternatives-in-rust - A curated list of replacements for existing software written in Rust

atop - System and process monitor for Linux

conky - Light-weight system monitor for X, Wayland, and other things, too

proot-distro - An utility for managing installations of the Linux distributions in Termux.