A little review of process (task) monitors and system info tools

• conky

  111 6,859 9.3 C++

  Light-weight system monitor for X, Wayland (sort of), and other things, too

Process monitoring is mandatory but CPU and I/O monitoring can be useful. It does a moveable window so I can watch it on a second monitor, along with other app windows, when the app I'm testing is running full screen so conky, although nice, is not quite what I need. In a terminal I use htop and/or iotop but I find graphical apps to be easier to read. I didn't want to have to compile anything or use Flatpak/Snap/AppImage/whatever but there's already a bunch of monitors in the repos so I checked them out and here's what I found.

• htop

  54 5,891 9.2 C

  htop - an interactive process viewer

  

Process monitoring is mandatory but CPU and I/O monitoring can be useful. It does a moveable window so I can watch it on a second monitor, along with other app windows, when the app I'm testing is running full screen so conky, although nice, is not quite what I need. In a terminal I use htop and/or iotop but I find graphical apps to be easier to read. I didn't want to have to compile anything or use Flatpak/Snap/AppImage/whatever but there's already a bunch of monitors in the repos so I checked them out and here's what I found.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• iotop

  4 338 7.8 C

  A top utility for IO

Process monitoring is mandatory but CPU and I/O monitoring can be useful. It does a moveable window so I can watch it on a second monitor, along with other app windows, when the app I'm testing is running full screen so conky, although nice, is not quite what I need. In a terminal I use htop and/or iotop but I find graphical apps to be easier to read. I didn't want to have to compile anything or use Flatpak/Snap/AppImage/whatever but there's already a bunch of monitors in the repos so I checked them out and here's what I found.

• hardinfo

  7 751 5.0 C

  System profiler and benchmark tool for Linux systems

Hardinfo: Pretty much anything you could want to know except process monitoring. A good complement to the simpler process monitors.

• Stacer

  16 8,759 3.4 C++

  Linux System Optimizer and Monitoring - https://oguzhaninan.github.io/Stacer-Web

Stacer: Overkill for what I need but absolutely beautiful

• bpytop

  74 9,854 0.0 Python

  Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor

• btop

  102 16,189 9.3 C++

  A monitor of resources

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

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